Re: [gentoo-user] PANIC !!!!

["Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>]

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.
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