> > I've neglected to update any packages since a nasty case of the new > > package blues a while ago, but in the last few days I've gotten back > > on top of it. I'm up to date with 'emerge -Du world' and I'd like to > > give 'emerge --depclean' a go, but I've read that it can be tricky. > > My world file is correct, should I try it? How do revdep-rebuild and > > fixpackages fit into all of this? > > I completely hosed my system once with 'emerge --depclean', and nearly > whacked it a second time. I only brought it back from the brink with > some tricky copying of missing libs. > > I've learned to be a little less tidy, my machine loves me for it. > > Bill Roberts
Why would something like that happen? It seems like Gentoo has a logical system for keeping everything sane. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
