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 <text/plain; US-ASCII (quoted-printable)>] >> >> 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.mckin...@gmail.com
