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On Wednesday 31 January 2007, Dieter Ries wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> on my gentoo server box i did an emerge --depclean and revdep-rebuild |
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> afterwards, but now, revdep rebuild gives me the following output: |
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> All prepared. Starting rebuild... |
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> emerge --oneshot =gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 =kde-base/kdepim-3.5.5-r2 |
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> =media-gfx/gimp-2.2.12 =media-gfx/imagemagick-6.3.0.5 |
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> =media-libs/gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-r5 =media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc1 |
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> =x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.2-r1 |
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> .......... |
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> Calculating dependencies |
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> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2". |
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> revdep-rebuild failed to emerge all packages |
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> so why would revdep-rebuild emerge ebuilds which don't exist??? |
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Because revdep-rebuild always merges the exact same version. |
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Otherwise you'd have a lot of trouble rebuilding/detecting broken slotted |
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packages. |
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And because it makes more sense to force manual interaction then creating a |
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broken tool. e.g. emerge gnome-base/gnome-libs yourself. |
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