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From: Francesco Talamona <ti.liame@×××××.it>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: infinite battle between emerge --depclean and revdep-rebuild
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:00:23
Message-Id: 200607182253.29553.ti.liame@email.it
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] infinite battle between emerge --depclean and revdep-rebuild by Allan Gottlieb
1 On Friday 14 July 2006 06:30, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
2 > The short story is that these two utilities will repeatedly remove
3 > and restore  media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.11.
4 [..]
5 I managed to solve this problem with catmur's dep [1]. After cleaning
6 out 86 redundant entries in /var/lib/portage/world and uninstalling a
7 lot of unneeded packages, emerge --depclean and revdep-rebuild stopped
8 playing ping-pong with gst-plugins-*
9
10 [1] http://catmur.co.uk/gentoo/udept/
11
12 Ciao
13 Francesco
14
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