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On 10/30/06, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sunday 29 October 2006 15:45, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> > When I run revdep-rebuild, it reports a bunch (around 100) breakages |
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> > involving early kde *.la files, but then it reports that |
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> > Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done. |
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> > These "broken" files are text, and say they're not to be deleted, but |
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> > equery can't find out for me what package, let alone version, they belong |
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> > to. Could it be that they are abandoned relic artifacts? |
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> > Should I just delete them anyway? |
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> Run emerge --deep -v -p to see if there's a couple of updated/removed apps |
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> that have left libs cruft behind and need to be removed. I can vaguely |
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> remember going through something like this a few months ago (about |
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> ImageMagick?), so if you do a gmane search you may find it - otherwise post |
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> back and I'll see if I can find it. |
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> HTH |
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I checked a number of them, and they were clearly orphans: the |
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libraries they were |
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associated with originally had ceased to exist, which makes sense because they |
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where also coordinated with KDE versions (3.2 and such) that I no longer have. |
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So I deleted the lot, and everything seems okay. |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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