Re: [gentoo-user] rebuilding dependent packages

[Joshua D Doll]

Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently did an emerge --update --deep world, which resulted in a rebuild of
> the ffmpeg library.
>
> The libavcodec library went from version 51 to 52, which broke transcode. The
> --deep argument did not find the dependency there and rebuild transcode.
>
> On my FreeBSD server, portupgrade has the -r and -R arguments to force
> rebuilds of dependent and reverse-dependent packages. Is there a way to have
> emerge do the same?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
I'm thinking you might want to check out revdep-rebuild from the 
gentoolkit package.

--Joshua Doll