On Mon, Dec 04 2017, Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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.
That was my feeling as well. thanks, allan
