From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 21EA2139083 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:38:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 356B4E1009; Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:38:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wm0-x244.google.com (mail-wm0-x244.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::244]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B5C96E0F65 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:38:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wm0-x244.google.com with SMTP id f206so8859813wmf.5 for ; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 07:38:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=jTBNknkZeJx84yrO/SNeYYrR8AbI27fMRr8jZax7qJ0=; b=aWEc1IPFN0+OBkqwGRG8uBbfACFQNJ6Qh5esvDs91W1peJkYVLkLph4VSqCsbXoH5a T9QOscEtWr/lBriCI00kzMyLptFT7KfHBz0G9cbu56E31tVMokkWnuPJOFWJGxUg3v2P 1zEKAbuQTjZo88wfuBB5aPIR4GeKT6QOWLWMohHgpZAQFkEAB8VgCeqITiND0ibP5L6P EQSwtoEw6OdyIdVzQQ3F6ll7DG0uXUGa47OoxYuyYArjRi3EgvoWIognUAnYQjxNluXi 8Uf1WbIOltjBb0oecSy3ODcA6STbmrV1dXrYCb0PX8fvc9lKdrmkTHkYN8UrYDe1KYTT KnIQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=jTBNknkZeJx84yrO/SNeYYrR8AbI27fMRr8jZax7qJ0=; b=HFQvTLFSa8CSorm4QCK1PX+S0ZnFEo49w0U5ENn/8HcpFM1d6ssfyO81IpZ3yiYqY6 1p48VtL2SukH9btwkoBj0KUhdL5FDaMBFkQ5tEVdY13u1zXb+UZEn2k19OO4Q+Dq+Rxw D/40neTb+aG8Y3SGXqje00PeGSJFVvNDlEIszV+Ui05PaVdIiyaPZNgVEBcyjrtYch/4 bMYZ6vCxGLEMLgyZXLkOi1OpBO/J9mDv49KfNq2jZj/lmDMG2kdVwQSwswKsplsIj7Tx 1RfdqNIqwk13k8GyV3tP9IKXCxBMkmkKQ2e/U94vW/vmrlWTJFsvvvzmZNG+c1tEmSw3 wmoQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AKGB3mIgu8N9HY5GjzsydbCnAXKkd2TJyOfY0v1qsqxCnSb09QJbsq3M X1OjrytRLgDBn9kSKQNTrf0498sa X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGs4zMa/QTOLM9tp1bC2Gddlp9ZzsrYtOPpbznnW2mTdNf+2uhB2XRIvrBJ2gg7nx7lSPOO/bztbgA== X-Received: by 10.28.196.70 with SMTP id u67mr3783558wmf.100.1512401913193; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 07:38:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.20.0.40] ([197.101.48.133]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id t135sm3923818wmt.24.2017.12.04.07.38.31 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 04 Dec 2017 07:38:32 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Again, emerge -e @world related questions... To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20171204025840.zyhjplahwxybr5gp@solfire> <20171204083855.216ecdf5@digimed.co.uk> <20171204092609.6357b1f6@phoucgh.digimed.co.uk> <9ce7b35e-5d5a-2478-027f-412c7ccf95c1@iinet.net.au> <877eu2mrpc.fsf@nyu.edu> From: Alan McKinnon Message-ID: Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 17:33:04 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 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: <877eu2mrpc.fsf@nyu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cdb075fa-307d-4b7b-b9c4-430fedb552c6 X-Archives-Hash: 7f12d59284148a42561975319e8dc788 On 04/12/2017 17:35, allan gottlieb wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04 2017, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > >> On 04/12/17 17:49, John Covici wrote: >>> On Mon, 04 Dec 2017 04:26:09 -0500, >>> Neil Bothwick wrote: >>>> >>>> [1 ] >> >> Your system is somewhat broken I think. You need to look at each >> package and resolve the problem - possibly stray entries in one of the >> package files or world. Have you done a depclean recently? >> >> BillK > > This sounds like good advice but I have a question concerning > --depclean. I would have thought that > > Any package --depclean would remove is not required by anything > in @world so would not be merged by emerge -e @world > > On one system I am rather behind in doing --depclean and wonder if I > must finish that task before trying emerge -e @world. You must do emerge -e @world first, it tends to fail (always fails?) if emerge world indicates there is something to be built. So just emerge -e world, then do a depclean. The first step is going to take long enough and increase your heating bills so much, that the extra work of a few packages is not worth the stress of worrying about. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com