Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild wants to downgrade packages!

[John covici]

on Thursday 07/10/2008 Joshua D Doll(joshua.doll@×××××.com) wrote
 > John covici wrote:
 > > Hi.  I just emerged the firefox 3.0 which required a new version also
 > > of xulrunner.  Now if I run revdep-rebuild, it wants to downgrade both
 > > of these packages.
 > >
 > > A number of packages seem to depend on libnss3.so.11 libsmime3.so.11
 > > libssl3.so.11 .  How can I resolve this conflict?
 > >
 > > Thanks in advance for any ideas on this.
 > >
 > >   
 > I believe you want to run revdep-rebuild with the -X  option flag. Also 
 > make sure you're using the xulrunner use flag instead of the firefox use 
 > flag.
 > 

OK, that helped a lot, it still reports  some evolution packages are
broke, but it does not rebuild them -- I don't use evolution much
anyway, so maybe it will get fixed in the next update.

Thanks much.

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