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 DB1A513829B for ; Sun, 29 May 2016 19:33:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AA5AC143CE; Sun, 29 May 2016 19:33:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f196.google.com (mail-yw0-f196.google.com [209.85.161.196]) (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 94D63142BA for ; Sun, 29 May 2016 19:33:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yw0-f196.google.com with SMTP id n16so12639359ywd.2 for ; Sun, 29 May 2016 12:33:11 -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=UcsxIsHnx65sJHIdtpE6HmET3ngzF5D9zosQowj49RQ=; b=MscC5n1DcU8Y62aSaZJomo5/y0JtkKu3uHdZzJKks1ARheIpWZOuETiJoCTBBAfiWF luJy2ZjLnc8HlOrWH3EXoJut82umz93Yi3001N8PufJjZtNJorKRXPayUvE78hxfdffU 7Nqz7lyQtjRm6qkvrPG4b0GG1ksNCY6EJ+6FYg6MAdCjrGhvR94YNpEedgpivZffOEuG yLQRX9wOZ8fRg3dzawlfZrkc1TeWm7vs7dA3PlbpvmNmMOsFGm3NBQ4Hl3h10hHmmAix UBhxNrC/hhLaLLDTeJIhCqS6lbmFCHv5CtiEaZw5bsgWbL1BkNwFNzBOWWgKmgWcf5qi neWw== 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=UcsxIsHnx65sJHIdtpE6HmET3ngzF5D9zosQowj49RQ=; b=W+QAKmyVZisf+wtR37RvdiEkIaO/drHk8aF00wqefOQ+JvK9+3nGeFY5/NiAghm4vJ HrvllSSol8PTGtX4qTe4CFaVruc9uzBnYdTNhNu4f8v6jBZwIcsryAQVnoSygdp7x5id xQnzLW8c7mAyejxYol8bKIM+BPh/uCohXOM761emke5jC/R7quSKe20ovUsdMFcdxFKJ wZLJr2fFCyZRQDuYiFGQYMl8LXrygPTpvfo89Top5f+EGKXIOOV+5q9QG37B5fQZXaQo 8JDh7nC1+GtTB8qIJ5/rxxAf2IyVjpn2z+Jijxff1FTu4kLlTAsdWqM7w+blPJvj0Crc 5kiw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tJmD87ECvJS70ktNSeav2pQ+fs5jWxeJ7FYvYkFRUq+mZNHyVVu4Nw3n5Y7uM2FDw== X-Received: by 10.37.204.14 with SMTP id l14mr4824450ybf.135.1464550390699; Sun, 29 May 2016 12:33:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-95-182.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.95.182]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id m204sm11542241ywb.54.2016.05.29.12.33.09 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 29 May 2016 12:33:10 -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> <574B1814.5040809@gmail.com> From: Dale Message-ID: <574B43F5.8030806@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 14:33:09 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 SeaMonkey/2.38 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: <574B1814.5040809@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0f9df06d-e51d-4e1f-87f8-374a8d3638d3 X-Archives-Hash: 2bdedf9f7be71161354ad2410f24fa7a 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 :-) :-)