On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 17:30 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Paul Hartman > <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Hartmut Figge <h.fi...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> Greetings, > >> > >> after the emerge -uDN world of today i proceeded with revdep-rebuild > >> which found nothing to to. But i noticed, that the emerge recommended to > >> execute revdep-rebuild --library='libosp.so.*'. Doing this two packages > >> were found and emerged. > >> > >> Now, shouldn't these have been found already by the previous > >> revdep-rebuild? > > > > I believe --library rebuilds everything that uses that library, not > > broken packages. > > To test my theory you can run the command again and see if it finds > the same 2 packages again. :) >
A quick look at the ebuild for opensp shows that it will always print that message - doesnt test if its really needed, and the revdep-rebuild reccomendation will always rebuild "all" matching libs it finds - not just ones that really need building. BillK
