On 11:52 Wed 30 Mar , Grant wrote: > I've neglected to update any packages since a nasty case of the new > package blues a while ago, but in the last few days I've gotten back > on top of it. I'm up to date with 'emerge -Du world' and I'd like to > give 'emerge --depclean' a go, but I've read that it can be tricky. > My world file is correct, should I try it? How do revdep-rebuild and > fixpackages fit into all of this?
I completely hosed my system once with 'emerge --depclean', and nearly whacked it a second time. I only brought it back from the brink with some tricky copying of missing libs. I've learned to be a little less tidy, my machine loves me for it. Bill Roberts
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