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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating libpng: another libtool cockup?
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:06:27
Message-Id: yu97h54y6d2.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating libpng: another libtool cockup? by Alan McKinnon
1 On Sun, Sep 18 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2
3 > On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:58:14 -0400
4 > Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
5 >
6 >> I wonder when a routine update world tells you to run
7 >> revdep-rebuild --library <some-lib>
8 >> should you run it before or after the full
9 >> revdep-rebuild
10 >> that we normally run after updates?
11 >
12 > Neither.
13 >
14 > revdep-rebuild checks everything, revdep-rebuild --library
15 > checks just some things.
16 >
17 > ebuilds sometimes issue messages to check just the libraries known to
18 > have been updated, but a full revdep-rebuild after an update will catch
19 > those anyway.
20
21 thanks,
22 allan