On 2/1/07, Daiajo Tibdixious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/1/07, Dieter Ries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on my gentoo server box i did an emerge --depclean and revdep-rebuild
> afterwards, but now, revdep rebuild gives me the following output:

Just when thru this myself.

> emerge --oneshot  =gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 =kde-base/kdepim-3.5.5-r2
> =media-gfx/gimp-2.2.12 =media-gfx/imagemagick-6.3.0.5
> =media-libs/gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-r5 =media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc1
> =x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.2-r1

The important part is the "broken blah (requires blah blah blah)" lines.

> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2".
> so why would revdep-rebuild emerge ebuilds which don't exist???

It's stupid. :) Its great at detecting broken linkage, lousy at fixing
it. I NEVER allow revdep-rebuild to rebuild ANYTHING. If I think the
"broken ..." actually match the list of packages, I'll emerge them
manually with --update.

Much less hassle that way.

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