Re: [gentoo-user] The war continues.

2016-03-19 Thread Alan Grimes
Then you should understand the need for detailed error reports and reading the output from the various commands. I always set verbosity to very high or max... Back in the good old days there was this OS called DOS. All of it's commands told you what they were and what they were doing by

Re: [gentoo-user] The war continues.

2016-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:55:24 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > One problem is that every time revdep-rebuild is run, it always rebuilds > all of libreoffice, an 8-hour build. WTF, seriously, WTF? HTF can we tell you when you haven't provided the output. However, you may want to read the revdep-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] The war continues.

2016-03-19 Thread William Ernesto Cárdenas Gómez
El jue, 17-03-2016 a las 10:55 -0400, Alan Grimes escribió: > My effort to update my syestem continues unabated. =\ > > One problem is that every time revdep-rebuild is run, it always > rebuilds > all of libreoffice, an 8-hour build. WTF, seriously, WTF? > > I made the mistake of syncing portage

Re: [gentoo-user] The war continues.

2016-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 20:26:00 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > Then you should understand the need for detailed error reports and > reading the output from the various commands. > > I always set verbosity to very high or max... What's the point if you don't include the output is your

[gentoo-user] The war continues.

2016-03-19 Thread Alan Grimes
My effort to update my syestem continues unabated. =\ One problem is that every time revdep-rebuild is run, it always rebuilds all of libreoffice, an 8-hour build. WTF, seriously, WTF? I made the mistake of syncing portage again and was thrown back into useflag hell: I tried to fix it by

Re: [gentoo-user] The war continues.

2016-03-19 Thread Max R.D. Parmer
Wow, sounds like you've been having a rough time. I think if you chunk things up into tiny pieces of logs, and take the issues on one at a time, you will be able to solve your problems. That said, if you would like to send us the last month or so of your emerge.log, we might be able to help focus

Re: [gentoo-user] The war continues.

2016-03-19 Thread Philip Webb
160317 Alan Grimes wrote: > My effort to update my syestem continues unabated. > One problem is that every time revdep-rebuild is run, > it always rebuilds all of libreoffice, an 8-hour build. When I upgraded to LO 5.1.0.3 , it took 1 h 4 m : do you have a very old machine ? > I tried to fix it

Re: [gentoo-user] The war continues.

2016-03-18 Thread Fast Turtle
Before using revdep-rebuild, you need to do a -pW --clean to see what's old/obsolete on the system. It can clear lots of cruft after just six months of updates. Once you see what needs to be cleared, you can do an -a (ask) before remove. Saves you from the sytem pulling python and fragging