On Saturday 22 October 2005 02:10, Richard Fish wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >On Friday 21 October 2005 22:13, Jeff Smelser wrote: > >>On Friday 21 October 2005 02:24 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >>>what do you mean 'crashed'? > >>> > >>>does revdep-rebuilt still works? > >>> > >>>but at least now you know why you should not use --deep. > >> > >>Why not? I use it here and I never get crashes.. One doesnt mean the > >> other. > > > >because some apps (like, for example xine) doesn't like it, when some of > > their dependencies get upgraded with a --deep world (like ffmpeg or > > transcode), while themselves are not recombiled. > > > >xine will not crash - but some video-filters will be gone. > > > >It is just not wise: > >App X linked against library L. > >Now you do an --update --deep world. > >lib L gets a new version L.1.1. > >But X does not recompiled, and funny things can happen now. > > revdep-rebuild
which a) does not catch all the cases and b) would not be needed at all, if you don't do '--deep' updates. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
