RE: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

[<burlingk@cv63.navy.mil>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hemmann, Volker Armin 
> [mailto:volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:58 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question
> 
> 
> On Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2007, Dale wrote:
> > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > > On Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2007, burlingk@cv63.navy.mil wrote:
> > >> I think that I will probably be better off doing a stage three 
> > >> install, then doing an 'emerge -euD world' or similar 
> before moving 
> > >> on from there.  After that, I can just make sure to 
> watch the FAQ's 
> > >> and walkthroughs when I install Xorg to make sure that I do it 
> > >> right.  ^_^
> > >
> > > why?  there is no need to do that. emerge -u --newuse 
> world would be 
> > > much more 'interessting'. Btw, an deep world update 
> ruined most of 
> > > my weekend... don't do --deep if you don't have to.
> >
> > Funny, I sync every few days or so and always do a emerge 
> -uvD world.  
> > I have less problems with that than just doing a -u world.
> >
> > Maybe it is when you do things consistantly that keeps things going 
> >well
> 
> and are you doing revdep-rebuilt afterwards?
> 
> Last time gwenviev and kipi stuff broke, krita broke and some 
> other stuff. 
> Krita did not emerge because of some changed symbols, so I 
> had to reemerge 
> koffice-libs - something revdep-rebuild did not catch. It 
> catches changed 
> versions, but if a lib is recompiled because of an -r update 
> and there are 
> symbol problems, revdep will not see them... 
> I had to rebuild kdepim and a lot of other stuff, just 
> because of that -D 
> update. It sucks to have to revdep-rebuild a douzend 
> packages. It suckes even 
> more when half of them fail because of some symbols and you 
> have to reemerge 
> three or four additional libs, so you can't just let it run 
> unattended...
> 
> In my years of gentoo, -D always caused problems and was 
> almost never worth 
> the trouble.
> -- 

I am glad I am asking questions now, and not after doing something
dumb. :P  I could SOOO mess things up on a new box. ^_^

;-)  I think the keyword of the day will be planning! ^_^
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