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From: Daiajo Tibdixious <daiajo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] revdep-rebuild rebuilding nonsense
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:24:35
Message-Id: a4a9bfcb0701311521o25c44083y2d6c1349d518d688@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] revdep-rebuild rebuilding nonsense by Daiajo Tibdixious
1 On 2/1/07, Daiajo Tibdixious <daiajo@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 2/1/07, Dieter Ries <clip2@×××.de> wrote:
3 > > on my gentoo server box i did an emerge --depclean and revdep-rebuild
4 > > afterwards, but now, revdep rebuild gives me the following output:
5 >
6 > Just when thru this myself.
7 >
8 > > emerge --oneshot =gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 =kde-base/kdepim-3.5.5-r2
9 > > =media-gfx/gimp-2.2.12 =media-gfx/imagemagick-6.3.0.5
10 > > =media-libs/gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-r5 =media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc1
11 > > =x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.2-r1
12 >
13 > The important part is the "broken blah (requires blah blah blah)" lines.
14 >
15 > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2".
16 > > so why would revdep-rebuild emerge ebuilds which don't exist???
17 >
18 > It's stupid. :) Its great at detecting broken linkage, lousy at fixing
19 > it. I NEVER allow revdep-rebuild to rebuild ANYTHING. If I think the
20 > "broken ..." actually match the list of packages, I'll emerge them
21 > manually with --update.
22 >
23 > Much less hassle that way.
24 >
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