Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 28 May 2016 20:48:37 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: > >>> Furthermore, the current portage doesn't require the revdep-rebuild >>> step because >>> of the @preserved-rebuild set creation. >> I beg to differ, portage still misses stuff more often than you think. I >> always run revdep-rebuild after an emerge. > I have a weekly system health check cron job that includes revdep-rebuild > -pi (hint to Alan: that's the correct way to have revdep-rebuild ignore > the results of previous runs). It rarely finds anything. There's still > the occasional glitch with preserved-libs, but I fons it works > ninety-lots % of the time, and it is far better than the "let it break > then try to fix it approach" of the days we needed to rely on > revdep-rebuild.
I respectfully disagree, my migraine quotient was much lower under that approach than with what's going on now. =| -- IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. Powers are not rights.
