From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17D7013829B for ; Sun, 29 May 2016 16:26:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 240E0940DD; Sun, 29 May 2016 16:26:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-f66.google.com (mail-pa0-f66.google.com [209.85.220.66]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 00B3F141FC for ; Sun, 29 May 2016 16:25:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f66.google.com with SMTP id x1so2403956pav.1 for ; Sun, 29 May 2016 09:25:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ylNqqDtwTQhv/eaDGy3W+C2BitZIHNXQcMMV2HUcrOA=; b=QYvehc+sC7qjspBAdL5XAbkw88gPu9m52aHJcCkGkytXyrEpYc6HaUg61/R/xbmaSu RIq37HlcBAFlX0VXz6XcTWMa63cy1UPUvUsmiSpLAigq3pDebH7S+fnnMMhivWB7iXhW L3GoaAejKhF+nLIu/gK7iXdU+6TE0A6U/U1Q5QL9WbarGkiWgIa+lwKTnYS7ljl6Nl+O 1fvfo/1tztukViosl0fTYIGYwNJ/iSM8llBtdvywEwq3IlkvQ7O/1Xu9rtLxsqXl5gOi uBUNUX7kfNi8NWm4U14D5T9Rjw83Ph9dJ8dJ1FzP5gGbB8Wafql07iaqTDTq2MasdCA4 XTwA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ylNqqDtwTQhv/eaDGy3W+C2BitZIHNXQcMMV2HUcrOA=; b=XNWccIFJWyS31LZluE9Gcz50d/aYOC0s1S3ohMib9wquKFZOznNSi2rdkcGB2HtB8z 0rQ9oJqMoXGWW3QTwQoOaA4DHflXinUrUiGyca+r83o9HlkRD27aPqrCwlswa/J4C3ET /DJ/Gg1mtN82PFEcHODz0OFV7l4FlYCELbQ/JWJbYCumkLrsKH0+s09KMaTlAcIK2wE/ c6c1IT5RxgHee6/esdolsYWlyf9C9rJnU2TXLDP3wYKRrNznMP0YCU51aPi4xowf4wSf 6tWNHYM9oiTe4kumuUuxUiP5INDzGiiHS0+SXVvSuIuqR+8AFHSIYBzA1rg/8BmkZyy3 yQBw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tLTtBt4m0P0PO/ygC1DKPBaFQIm0Ux+Av6AqWxQ/DlPosdrJjF7Yi6XepkmGC5TIA== X-Received: by 10.66.1.99 with SMTP id 3mr38870674pal.26.1464539157931; Sun, 29 May 2016 09:25:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.247.60] (76-10-187-16.dsl.teksavvy.com. [76.10.187.16]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id p65sm26927878pfd.6.2016.05.29.09.25.56 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 29 May 2016 09:25:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to be a penguin. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <5749C1AE.5020905@verizon.net> <20160528111929.503f9bbd@sepulchrave.remarqs> <5749D00C.4030408@gmail.com> <5749E469.7020601@gmail.com> <5749E832.1030404@gmail.com> <5749F761.7020803@googlemail.com> <20160528215322.12a267c2@digimed.co.uk> <574A6695.8090901@gmail.com> <20160529095815.62ab0895@digimed.co.uk> <574AB448.6080108@gmail.com> From: Daniel Frey Message-ID: <574B1814.5040809@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 09:25:56 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.8.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <574AB448.6080108@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 281d6ff8-7dfd-4ad2-a0f0-126d204aa17f X-Archives-Hash: fb983a23bbf0d04d5493a4239a3fea6c On 05/29/2016 02:20 AM, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> I have a weekly system health check cron job that includes revdep-rebuild >> -pi (hint to Alan: that's the correct way to have revdep-rebuild ignore >> the results of previous runs). It rarely finds anything. There's still >> the occasional glitch with preserved-libs, but I fons it works >> ninety-lots % of the time, and it is far better than the "let it break >> then try to fix it approach" of the days we needed to rely on >> revdep-rebuild. >> >> > > > I haven't ran revdep-rebuild in likely over a year. Just for giggles, I > ran it a bit ago. The only thing it found was libreoffice. That's not > exactly a critical package or anything. Given that, I don't think it > really serves any point. > > I wonder if me having backtrack set to 100 helps with that? Of course, > unlike poor Alan, I also have a sane approach to upgrading. I also run > the latest non-9999 version of portage. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > I should correct myself, I always run revdep-rebuild after a depclean. The point it, portage doesn't catch everything, regardless of its importance or not. Dan