On 05/29/2016 02:20 AM, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> I have a weekly system health check cron job that includes revdep-rebuild >> -pi (hint to Alan: that's the correct way to have revdep-rebuild ignore >> the results of previous runs). It rarely finds anything. There's still >> the occasional glitch with preserved-libs, but I fons it works >> ninety-lots % of the time, and it is far better than the "let it break >> then try to fix it approach" of the days we needed to rely on >> revdep-rebuild. >> >> > > > I haven't ran revdep-rebuild in likely over a year. Just for giggles, I > ran it a bit ago. The only thing it found was libreoffice. That's not > exactly a critical package or anything. Given that, I don't think it > really serves any point. > > I wonder if me having backtrack set to 100 helps with that? Of course, > unlike poor Alan, I also have a sane approach to upgrading. I also run > the latest non-9999 version of portage. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > >
I should correct myself, I always run revdep-rebuild after a depclean. The point it, portage doesn't catch everything, regardless of its importance or not. Dan
