On Saturday 22 October 2005 02:37, Rafael Fernández López wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Friday 21 October 2005 21:11, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > >>My hole linux box has crashed !!!! > >>I made a system update yesterday with emerge -Du world.... > >> > >>it update my apache, mantis, nagios, bind, mysql..... today my hole > >>system is against me.... > >>I think in reinstall the full system .... has any one got a better > >>idea, my backups are unavailable now .... > > > > what do you mean 'crashed'? > > > > does revdep-rebuilt still works? > > > > but at least now you know why you should not use --deep. > > Deep is almost imprescindible when upgrading. You have to upgrade > dependencies too, or maybe your new and fresh app is built onto old > libraries that can make it crash, or just going slower.
--deep is totally superflous. When something needs the latest libs, it will pull them in anyway. So there is no need to install the latest version. Nobody said, that the latest are always the fastest too. When nothing needs the latest stuff, why change the dependency of maybe douzends of apps, only to have the latest version? A lot of times, this breaks stuff. Or does thinks make slower. Or make some apps crashy&instabil. Some apps even need a very small spectrum of versions - any change in the libs, and boom, you have a memory-leaking crashy hog. Or at least something that does not work like it should (like xine or mplayer, when you update ffmpeg and transcode behind their backs). --deep does not solve problems, it generates them. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
