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From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 02:43:38
Message-Id: 200705302137.59067.bss03@volumehost.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added) by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
1 On Wednesday 30 May 2007 21:20:52 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
2 > On Thursday 31 May 2007 04:09:10 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
3 > > I found check_linkage.rb, but it's not installed (or linked) to any of
4 > > the standard $PATH directories.  Instead, it's in a "demo" directory.  Is
5 > > it fully functional?
6 >
7 > Yes. You run it with ruby.
8
9 Yeah, I figured a .rb was run with ruby. :P
10
11 If it's really useful, it should be chmod'd +x and installed or linked
12 into /usr/sbin. I can do that myself (in that case /usr/local/sbin), but
13 such wonderful utilities shouldn't be hidden. :)
14
15 > It does still lack a couple of features though.
16 > Namely --library and the ability to pick another version when the ebuild
17 > for an installed version has been removed. At least the latter is soon to
18 > come.
19
20 I noticed it was also trying to reinstall all my binary-only packages:
21 sun-jdk, blackdown-jdk, skype, and emul-linux-x86-compat. I guess
22 revdep-rebuild has some blacklist that prevents it from doing so.
23
24 > But at least it will never use the horrible hack that revdep-rebuild uses
25 > with --package-names because of the lack of support for the
26 > =category/package-version:slot syntax in portage-2.0* which it still
27 > supports.. :)
28
29 You mean that portage actually supports slot deps now?
30
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Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added) "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>