Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to be a penguin.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Daniel Frey wrote:
> 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
>
>

It seems to here.  Like I said, I haven't ran it in over a year and all
it found was libreoffice.  Everything else was fine.  I don't run
--depclean after every upgrade but do after either a big update or every
other update, whichever comes first. 

Dale

:-)  :-)