On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 13:54:25 -0800, Grant wrote: > Got it. So @preserved-rebuild is meant to be a replacement for > revdep-rebuild
No, it is a means of preventing the problems that revdep-rebuild fixes. If revdep-rebuild were a medicine, @preserved-rebuild would be a vaccine. Which you choose to use depends on whether you prefer fixing broken systems to avoiding them. revdep-rebuild is an external program created to deal with a shortcoming in emerge, that shortcoming was the lack of @preserved-rebuild. There may be times when @preserved-rebuild fails, although they are becoming increasingly rare, so revdep-rebuild is still useful as a fallback, but the main reason I run it from my weekly system check script is as a sanity check. It rarely finds anything. -- Neil Bothwick Beware! The end is... <aaarrgh!>
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