On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:00:33 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > Was it an endless loop? AIUI you emerged twice and the > > @preserved-rebuild count decreased. In my experience, it can > > occasionally take a few runs to clear the list, sometimes subsequent > > runs add packages that were not there previously, but it all clears > > in the end, I have NEVER had to resort to deleting the registry file > > manually.
> If I don't run it forever then I don't think I can say it would never > clear up. Can't prove a negative, etc. When you get identical package lists on subsequent runs, I think it's fair to say it won't fix itself. This has never happened to me. > However, it did get to the point where it was complaining about two > packages and the number of files to be rebuilt went (IIRC) 52, 50, 50, > so I decide since it was rebuilding 50 packages the 2nd & 3rd times it > wasn't going to improve. Might not be true though. I think it is being over-cautious, which results in packages being rebuilt multiple time unnecessarily, but I's rather give it the chance to fix itself. That said, I've never had a list anything like 50 packages long, but I do update frequently. -- Neil Bothwick Why are love and relationships so confusing?
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