On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 09:49 -0700, Wade Brown wrote: > In this specific case, "Broken" means "Binary Package". Binary > packages are distributed with all kinds of libraries linked to so that > they can minimize the amount of binary packages they need to maintain > (e.g. they don't need an eclipse-gnome and an eclipse-nognome > package). The program will ideally run as if those features were > disabled at compile time, but usually does spit out a few errors on > console about missing libraries. > > Revdep wanting to rebuild binary packages everytime is a known issue, > and in newer (still masked?) versions there is a specific directory > omission setting to tell it to ignore /opt, and anywhere else there > may be binary packages. If it is still masked as I think, then you > could just $EDITOR `which revdep-rebuild` and take out /opt from the > SEARCH_DIRS variable. > > Anyway, quick answer, No, your packages are not broken, so no worries.
The newer revdep-rebuild is in gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre4, that version is not package masked, but it is currently keyworded with the unstable keywords. If you use the newer revdep-rebuild, the variable that you want to set is SEARCH_DIRS_MASK. Regards, Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
