On Sun, 8 Sep 2013 22:23:15 +0200
Martin Sekera <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hi, sorry if this is obvious.
> >>
> >> EAPI 5 packages that depend on a particular slot with := are
> >> supposed to be rebuilt when the dependency is upgraded to a new
> >> slot, is this correct?
> >
> > Sort of, but it's not that simple. Dependencies don't specify what
> > should be done, they specify what a legal resolution is. In the case
> > of := dependencies, we've not really decided what the cleanest way
> > of dealing with them is.
> 
> I understand. Is there a way to lookup all installed packages that :=
> depend on a particular one? So I can get a list of what to rebuild. At
> the moment I'm using "equery depends atom" to find packages that
> directly depend a library, which is not very elegant.

There's resolve --reinstall-dependents-of.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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