Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > 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 which could have been solved with revdep-rebuild (or at least running it here after removing the previous version solved it - I just followed flameeyes guide). Emerge -e was like buying a new car when it would have been cheaper and easier to just replace the fault part(s). -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg
