"Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> --deep is almost never needed. Some people love it and tell everybody to use >> it. Usually people who are version number freaks. But in 90% it is useless >> to >> harmfull. > > Could you be more specific, please? How is it harmful? What happens to > your system when you use --deep? > > Why is it that despite --deep being recommended[1] and used (I assume) > by the majority of Gentoo users, I haven't heard of any ill effects of > using --deep? (You are the first and so far the only person to recommend > against it.)
Being the thread owner so to speak, I'd like to ask something of you here. The converse of your question. How is it good. Can't speak for Hermman of course but I think he was suggesting that somewhere `Deep' in the dependancies of something things got tangled up and caused something to bread that has bearing on my `slow redraw' problem ending up with a need to revdep-rebuild to find the problems. I still haven't seen what is at the root of my redraw problem and haven't really heard any advice about how to debug it further. I would like to hear both sides of this since you both are obviously quite knowledgale about how gentoo works > I *always* use --deep when upgrading because then I am assured of > getting *all* of the dependencies of packages I am emerging. I am not > aware of *ever* having system problems due to using --deep. How do you > prevent packages from being installed that are missing dependencies? I have been using --deep as a matter of course when upgrading and I can say I have had system problems *absolutely every time* I've upgraded. And (Embarrassing given the sad state of my skill level) but I've been running gentoo for something like 2 or more years . I don't know if the problems I've had are attributable to --deep in any way, but I can say its likey to be at least in part due to ill informed bumbling on my part. The problems haven't always been big ones but there have always been some requiring me to post here for advice. Many were about the tangled web of kde dependancies. How would you recognize that a system problem was or was not attributable to `--deep'? Also isn't emerge supposed to find dependancies as a default behavior? In particular how can we determine what is wrong in my system causing the slow redrawing of windows and slow scrolling. Its getting annoying enough that I'm thinkin about trashing this install and going back to a stage install from snapshots and see if I still get this slow redraw. The revdep-rebuild that Hermman suggested did find problems with gcc that I fixed by re emerging it with USE="-gcj". But apparently this is not related to `slow redraw'. -- [email protected] mailing list
