Apparently, though unproven, at 20:54 on Friday 19 November 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly:
> > It seems, however, that you're still going down the path of emerge > > > > -e @world. Why is that? If it's just to be confident that everything > > is back to the way it should be then I understand that. I've done it > > myself many times in the last 12 years. > > Yes that is the reason. Sounds like the big guns approach, can be valid at times. I'm usually the first one to chip in about emerge -e world being stupid when someone reads the gcc upgrade guide, but sometimes you have a box that just will not fix itself despite hours of troubleshooting. In a case like this a full remerge often fixes mysterious but actual real problems. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
