Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/08/2017 07:49 AM, Dale wrote: >> P. S. I've had emerge -e world fix issues in the past too. Weird how >> that works. :/ > > Gentoo packagers are not wizards. They cannot know which packages need > a rebuild when a dependency changes. They know some of them, but not > all. So over time, packages start misbehaving because some of their > deps have been upgraded and the maintainer of the ebuild doesn't know > about the need for a rebuild. > > > >
True. I haven't had to run emerge -e world in a good long while. I think it does much much better now than it did in the past. It is amazing given all the options we have that pretty much anything works. Think about all the USE flag options we have on Gentoo. There are tons of them. It would be impossible to test them all and even then, it still wouldn't take into account the different versions of packages. Heck, I have over 1,000 packages installed here. Even with just a average of four USE flag options each, that's a lot of testing. I wouldn't do it for sure. I been using Gentoo for well over a decade. Portage/emerge has come a very long ways. Since it is winter here, I may run a emerge -e world later tonight after my sync up. Just for some extra heat and giggles. Dale :-) :-)
