Re: Couple of garnome questions.

[Bob Kashani <bobk ocf berkeley edu>]

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 02:28, Ron Smits wrote:
> > After a 'tla update' if you run a 'make paranoid-install' it should only
> > compile the new updated stuff.
> > 
> 
> hmmmz hang on. garnome knows about updated packages but it cannot tell
> if an updated package b means that package a needs be recompiled. Or am
> I missing something here? 

Yes, there are caveats. You're right it won't recompile older packages
against the newer stuff. It'll only compile the new stuff. 

> nice example would be totem and gstreamer. if gstreamer is updated to
> 0.9 (just making this version up) totem will still be compiled against
> 0.8.2. 

Yup.

> I think I will just go with 'what the heck, let's compile everything'
> attitude

Yes, this is the best option but not everyone wants to recompile
everything from scratch every time there is a minor update. For most
things you should be able to just run a 'make paranoid-install' after an
update and things should hopefully work fine. But you're right if core
things change then a 'make clean' would be the best solution.

Bob

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Bob Kashani
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