On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 08:08:40AM -0600, Collins Richey wrote: > > Have you tried re-emerging xfree? > > > > I find this quite banal. It seems that the most common recommendation > (without any justification or reference to bugs) is to re-emerge > <pick-a-package>. If xfree didn't emerge properly the first time, why > would it work now? > > Please don't take this personally. I got this same recommendation for > another package when trying to emerge an update to qt. If > recommendations like this contained a rationale, I might be less > concerned.
Sometimes it's the right advice. In my experience, there are good reasons for this (a change in the USE flags) and bad reasons (sometimes the first emerge failed for unknown reasons and a second one works) - but in either case it's worth a try. Nathan Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
