Dale writes:
> deface wrote:
> > It sounds like the mistake was on your hand. baselayout isn't udated
> > as often, unless you are ~**. the missing files are from any
> > baselayout, not just the version you are stating.
> >
> > *** WARNING *** Depclean may break link level dependencies. Thus,
> > it is *** WARNING *** recommended to use a tool such as
> > `revdep-rebuild` (from *** WARNING *** app-portage/gentoolkit) in
> > order to detect such breakage.
[...]
> > Plenty of warning there. Not recommended to --depclean. UNLESS
> > absolutely necessary.
Well, it is not absolutely necessary, but I like to have a clean system
without a heap of old packages I do not need any more. And when I have
two baselayouts installed, I think it is best to remove the old one.
> Isn't baselayout part of system? Wouldn't --depclean leave that
> installed? Something sounds . . . fishy. I run --depclean and I don't
> recall it ever removing something in system.
>
> That said, always add a -p or -a to that thing. It can boo boo and
> remove something you need if you are not careful. I removed a kde
> thing once. No GUI for a bit.
Of course I did that. emerge --depclean showed me (along many other
things) two installed baselayouts, one to remove, the current one to
keep. And most of the things were kept, like man pages, but some
essential files were not.
Looking at emerge.log, I see that I had the old 1.7.8-r1 in parallel for
quite a while. For about three weeks, I had masked 1.12.10-r5, because I
wanted to stay with 1.12.9-r2 until I had physical access to the system.
I removed the mask, upgraded world, and did the depclean then.
Wonko
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