[gentoo-user] Re: dev-libs/boost-1.35.0-r2 and x11-libs/vte-0.17.4-r3 still linked to libpython2.5.so.1.0 after upgrading to python-2.6.2-r1

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 08/19/2009 09:13 PM, Yiannis wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Recently I upgraded to python-2.6.2-r1 which currently is slotted on
> my system as long as python-2.5.4-r3 is. After running python-upgrade
> twice I see that dev-libs/boost-1.35.0-r2 and x11-libs/vte-0.17.4-r3
> are still linked to libpython2.5.so.1.0. On the other hand emege
> --depclean -p suggests that python-2.5.4-r3 can be removed and this is
> what I would like to do if possible. Shouldn't python-upgrade have
> resolved this linking issue? From the afore mentioned ebuilds I can
> tell that there is no specific dependency on python 2.5. Any help would
> be appreciated.

That's what revdep-rebuild is for.  After depclean removes python-2.5, 
you need to do a revdep-rebuild which will take care of boost and any 
other packages still using the old libpython.