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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies - one more mystery novel
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:28:54
Message-Id: 201001211726.28281.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] dependencies - one more mystery novel by Helmut Jarausch
1 On Thursday 21 January 2010 17:10:56 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2 > Upgrading to media-libs/jpeg-8
3 > poses a new level of difficulty (to me).
4 >
5 > I cannot use emerge @preserved-rebuild since I still
6 > have kde-3 packages and still have problems with the
7 > kde-sunset overlay which I have to resolve lateron.
8 >
9 > Now, I try to find out which packages depend on jpeg-7.
10 > First idea
11 > revdep-rebuild -p -L /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.7
12 >
13 > but this also finds packages which depend on
14 > /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.7 AND /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.8
15 > probably because they depend on /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.7
16 > only indirectly.
17 >
18 > But how to find out these intermediate libraries which depend
19 > on /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.7 directly?
20 >
21 > Thanks for a hint,
22 > Helmut.
23 >
24
25 Just run revdep-rebuild without options. It will find and rebuild everything
26 that is broken, which is something you need to do anyway. And you need to fix
27 that kde overlay as a priority.
28
29 Just do it.
30
31 --
32 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies - one more mystery novel Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>