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From: Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-libs/db, emerge and revdep-rebuild
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:34:07
Message-Id: 1283848374.8307.9.camel@gdartigu.lan.rep.sj
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] sys-libs/db, emerge and revdep-rebuild by Dirkjan Ochtman
1 Le lundi 06 septembre 2010 à 09:28 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman a écrit :
2 > Hi there,
3 >
4 > I had a different problem with the db upgrade last week: postfix
5 > broke. I had to run revdep-rebuild to fix it; this is fine, except
6 > that nothing prompted me to run revdep-rebuild. So:
7 >
8 > - Am I expected to run revdep-rebuild after every emerge -uavDN world now?
9
10 No, some devs seems to assume breaking users system is ok, see [1],
11 but the thruth is that users would at least like to have a warning
12 before it happens. Please fill a bug against the offending package.
13
14 [1]
15 http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@l.g.o/msg39766.html
16
17 --
18 Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
19 Gentoo