Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

On Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:00:07 -0400, c186282 wrote:

>> 
>> To those of us who take for granted that there will be a systemwide
>> package manager to handle the dependencies and updates, built on an
>> underlying platform that knows how to handle shared-library
>> versioning, none of that is a problem.
> 
>    Seeing more and more probs with those perfect
>    managers though. Still 'ok' by and large but
>    I see bitching about missing dependencies, oft
>    involving v0.0.1 differences.
> 

That would *never* be a problem with Gentoo.

Although Gentoo Portage is extremely reliable in resolving
dependencies it is possible that the user may choose to build
packages outside of the Portage tree which may in time cause
dependency issues.

For this and other reasons, Gentoo has developed "revdep-rebuild"
which is a utility that examines every binary and library that
is installed on the system for consistency.  It never fails
to locate problems which can then be easily corrected.

IMO, Gentoo is the only "distro" worthy of supervising a
GNU/Linux installation.




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Gentoo/LFS: Is there any-fucking-thing else?