Mick wrote: > Hello Mr Grimes, > > I see you still have trouble dealing with your rage issues. > > I recommend you seek professional help about that. > Nah! Let the man vent. Gentoo is a particularly effective (meta)distro for > this purpose too. It will invariably do *exactly* what you instruct it, > although this comes with no guarantee this will be what wanted it to do. > > It forces you to learn through practice. ;-)
No, not in this case. Emerge is clearly looking for any tenible excuse not to do anything whatsoever, and will not do anything at all if any such excuse exists. Six months ago, it wasn't like this. It would generally plow ahead and start compiling the shit you asked it to. This WOULD sometimes cause problems, which could affect multi-user systems and server situations, but on my desktop, all of these problems would go away by the end of the update list and 95% of the time, revdep-rebuild wouldn't have anything to do. And then some pinhead got an idea that you could verify the workingness of every package by spending twenty minutes of cpu time examining ebuilds.... This could work, (given 20 minutes) almost, if you set --backtrack=30. However, not having this set by default is a wonderful opportunity to annoy the crap out of the user and such opportunities are never to be passed up. NEVER!! -- IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. Powers are not rights.
