[gentoo-dev] Re: Unmerging dependent packages

[Paul Smith]

%% "Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-" <msterret@××××.com> writes:

  msb> Look for revdep-rebuild and emerge -p depclean.

I may be simply confused by terminology, so if I'm reading more (or
less) into the descriptions than are really there please let me
know... but it doesn't seem like these tools are what I'm looking for.


The "emerge depclean" command says it compares the packages installed on
the system with those in the system package list and the world file, and
removes packages which don't "shouldn't" be there.  That's not what I
want: I'm looking for a way to remove a package, and _all the packages
that depend on it_, regardless of whether or not they're in the world
file.


The description for revdep-rebuild appears to say that it looks only for
shared libraries and "checks all libraries and binaries on your system
for broken dynamic links".  Is that really what it does, using ldd or
similar?  Because that's not really what I want.  For example some of my
updated packages use static libraries, but I still want them rebuilt
when I install a new version of that static library.  Or maybe they
aren't C code at all but some other tool, and I want to rebuild
everything that depends on that tool when it's updated.

Basically I want a command that says "rebuild everything that depends on
package foo, and everything that depends on those packages, and
everything that depends on those packages, ..." etc.

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