[gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

[nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva)]

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wednesday 14 July 2010 05:49:48 Valmor de Almeida wrote:
>> Mark Knecht wrote:
>> > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
>> >> wrote: <SNIP>
>> >> 
>> >>> Unless he's the kind of guy who likes to rip his Ferrari apart for
>> >>> kicks and put it all back together again so that not even the factory
>> >>> can notice...
>> >> 
>> >> Precisely... :-)
>> > 
>> > Oh, and besides liking the smell of fresh baked 1 and 0's in the
>> > morning emerge -e @world was an easy  way to solve my libpng problem.
>> > Woke up this morning to a freshly baked Gentoo machine.
>> > 
>> > - Mark
>> 
>> Exactly. My Ferrari is back with a brand new engine and no libpng issue.
>
>
> Lets follow this logic.
>
> You blindly wanted to re-emerge all of world because an over-reaching gcc 
> upgrade guide said so. Coincidentally, there was a monumental libpng cock-up 
> hanging around which emerge -e world just happened to fix.

And which could have been solved with revdep-rebuild (or at least
running it here after removing the previous version solved it - I just
followed flameeyes guide).

Emerge -e was like buying a new car when it would have been cheaper and
easier to just replace the fault part(s).

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Nuno J. Silva
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