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From: Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:22:48
Message-Id: 20130927152237.GL22468@server
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages by Markus Trippelsdorf
1 On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:38:44PM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
2 > On 2013.09.27 at 10:24 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
3 > > Hi,
4 > > would anybody please be so kind to explain to me the rational used by
5 > > portage to re-emerge
6 > > some packages.
7 > >
8 > > I've installed portage 2.2.7 and when I try to emerge, say,
9 > > app-shells/zsh-completions
10 > > it re-emerges (emerge -vp shows 'rR') several packages including,
11 > > i.e., app-office/libreoffice
12 > >
13 > > I can't imaging libreoffice depends in any way on zsh-completions.
14 > >
15 > > So, what's going on?
16 >
17 > It's fallout from dev-python/python-exec-2.0...
18 > Maybe Michał can explain why it's necessary to rebuild libreoffice.
19
20 I've had plenty of grief over python-exec-0.3.1 getting depcleaned a couple
21 days ago. Rebuilding each pkg effected works, but what about the ones you
22 miss? Such as, no mail this morning... getmail stopped working.
23
24 I've just now "re-emerge python-exec:0" and will live with that until Michał
25 gets this fixed.
26
27 Should we report here: https://bitbucket.org/mgorny/python-exec/issues/
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