[gentoo-user] Re: portage inconsistency?

[Remy Blank]

Abraham Marín Pérez wrote:
> That is indeed true, however, it will always be better keeping things
> right than breaking and fixing as a rule, don't you think?

The thing is, you will *have to* break things at some point anyway. In
your case, it will be when you decide to update LIB (because you want to
have the new features, or because another package needs the new
version). Between the LIB update and the APP recompilation, APP will be
broken.

Even worse, if you don't know that the LIB update will break APP, you
might not notice immediately that APP is broken, or you might only get
some strange results from APP. That's where revdep-rebuild steps in: it
can tell you that APP is broken, and what's needed to fix it. So you're
better off running it consistently after your regular updates.

-- Remy