[Eug-lug] the eschaton of the X GNOMEs

[T. Joseph Carter]

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:45:23PM -0700, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> > I'm in the middle of rebuilding Gnome2 from ports because I was naive and
> > trusting regarding a Makefile that turns out to have upgraded parts of
> > gnome but not others.
> 
> I generally whack out all ports and then reinstall them all ...
> especially with something like gnome or kde that use interdependent
> libraries.

I was recommending that he run cvsco on the tree, but I have no idea if
that's massively unwise to do to BSD ports.  cvsco is a destructive but
reasonably bandwidth friendly way to make a checkout pristine--it nukes
any files not in the respository, blows away any files which have changes
in them, and regets just those files.  =)

There are times when it's handy to restore a tree to pristine, usually
after you've coded yourself into a corner and realize that the last three
hours of work and far-reaching changes are complete garbage.  ;)