Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild question

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Monday 19 February 2007, "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote 
about 'Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild question':
> On 2/19/07, Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za> wrote:
> > On Monday 19 February 2007, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > >    I'm not clear why revdep-rebuild is showing lots of broken
> > > linkages but then telling me everything is in order and there is no
> > > work to do to clean up the system.
> > >
> > >    I haven't seen this before. What's causing it?
> >
> > They might be orphan binaries from a previous incomplete unmerge, or
> > something locally compiled, or even files installed from a foreign
> > package system (.tgz or .rpm perhaps?)
>
>    Seems reasonable. Would I (Could I?) then do an equery depends on
> each binary and assuming nothing depends on it remove them by hand
> without causing damage?

Probably want to do a (b)elongs instead of a (d)epends, but yes, assuming 
you aren't maintaining those binaries outside of portage's control.  (E.g. 
locally compiled or from a foreign package system.)

>    I'd want to do another revdep-rebuild every so often to ensure that
> things remained consistent.

Yep.  revdep-rebuild used to be part of my daily system maintenance script 
(and will be put back once I figure out a good way to use paludis instead 
of emerge for the remerge part).

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