On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Brennan Shacklett <bp.shackl...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > I think that package is there, but I'll check this weekend. I didn't > feel like carrying my laptop today. > > It would be nice if I just had to install it, but I would think > revdep-rebuild should pull it in . . . or doesn't revdep-rebuild work that > way? > > revdep-rebuild will only rebuild the package with the broken link. It won't > pull in anything (unless the ebuild pulls something else in), so > revdep-rebuild can't fix an issue that needs another package that the ebuild > doesn't depend on. > > --Brennan Shacklett > Moreover, you may want to run "emerge -a --depclean", which just might flush the package(s) with broken links. I run that manually once in a while, but regularly clean a bunch of other things with a script I call "cleanup", - #!/bin/bash - dispatch-conf - revdep-rebuild - lafilefixer --justfixit - perl-cleaner all - locale-gen --keep --quiet You have to be prepared to respond to dispatch-conf, but the others run to completion by themselves. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
