On Wednesday 14 July 2010 05:49:48 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: <SNIP> > >> > >>> Unless he's the kind of guy who likes to rip his Ferrari apart for > >>> kicks and put it all back together again so that not even the factory > >>> can notice... > >> > >> Precisely... :-) > > > > Oh, and besides liking the smell of fresh baked 1 and 0's in the > > morning emerge -e @world was an easy way to solve my libpng problem. > > Woke up this morning to a freshly baked Gentoo machine. > > > > - Mark > > Exactly. My Ferrari is back with a brand new engine and no libpng issue.
Lets follow this logic. You blindly wanted to re-emerge all of world because an over-reaching gcc upgrade guide said so. Coincidentally, there was a monumental libpng cock-up hanging around which emerge -e world just happened to fix. And this somehow validates the gcc upgrade guide? You just happened to have a fortunate side-effect at the right time. Doesn't change the fact that the author of the guide wrote a misleading document. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
