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On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 09:49 -0700, Wade Brown wrote: |
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> In this specific case, "Broken" means "Binary Package". Binary |
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> packages are distributed with all kinds of libraries linked to so that |
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> they can minimize the amount of binary packages they need to maintain |
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> (e.g. they don't need an eclipse-gnome and an eclipse-nognome |
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> package). The program will ideally run as if those features were |
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> disabled at compile time, but usually does spit out a few errors on |
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> console about missing libraries. |
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> Revdep wanting to rebuild binary packages everytime is a known issue, |
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> and in newer (still masked?) versions there is a specific directory |
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> omission setting to tell it to ignore /opt, and anywhere else there |
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> may be binary packages. If it is still masked as I think, then you |
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> could just $EDITOR `which revdep-rebuild` and take out /opt from the |
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> SEARCH_DIRS variable. |
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> Anyway, quick answer, No, your packages are not broken, so no worries. |
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The newer revdep-rebuild is in gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre4, that version is |
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not package masked, but it is currently keyworded with the unstable |
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keywords. |
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If you use the newer revdep-rebuild, the variable that you want to set |
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is SEARCH_DIRS_MASK. |
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Regards, |
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Paul |
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