On Saturday 22 October 2005 14:26, Eddie Mihalow Jr wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > 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. > > Sorry, but I don't agree with this. I use -deep every day and have yet > to have any of > these so-called problems Mr. Volker is espousing. I have mplayer and > xine and they both work fine. > I wonder how you came to this conclusion-was it direct experience, or > just banal thinking? > Regards,
direct experience. I have seen xine and mplayer break multiple times or KDE loosing its themes, because of qt updates or wesnoth. And that are the ones I remember without to much brain work. That is why I am healed from --deep updates -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
