051130 Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 17:34 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> As one of the "masses", I am certainly disturbed at that implication. >> I don't remember any such need when I upgraded 2.9.5 -> 3.x (now 3.3.6). >> This is the kind of issue on which I trust the devs to do sensible things, >> but do we really need to rebuild our whole systems from the ground up ? >> Ordinarily, I upgrade packages individually when it seems appropriate >> & never do 'emerge world' with or without '-e' or other flags; >> I do 'esync' every weekend & look at what is marked as having changed. > Technically, you don't need to rebuild world. > You only need to rebuild stuff that uses C++ and links to libstdc++.
That's what I wanted to know. >From this & other responses, it looks as if it would be a bad idea eg to upgrade to KDE 3.5 just before adopting GCC 3.4 (smile), but that 'revdep-rebuild' will reveal the (lengthy) list of needed remerges. I would urge whoever is documenting this to avoid a blanket recommendation to 'emerge -e system && emerge -e world' or be prepared for a lot of negative reaction from the masses. <spectate> -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
