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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:28:26 +0200
From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng:  another lib tool cockup?
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On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:58:52 -0400
Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:

> > First one emerges *broken* packages.
> > Second one emerge packages *using* png14 (not necessarily broken)  
> 
> OK.  But the claim was that: if
>    revdep-rebuild
> with no argument found nothing to build, then
>    revdep-rebuild --library <some-library>
> will find nothing.
> 
> This guarantee is apparently no long true as my example in another msg
> illustrated.

Michael is indeed correct.

A careful reading of the man page reveals the usage of the words
"broken" and "using" exactly like he said. So I stand humbly corrected.

I find revdep-rebuild's behavior in this respect confusing. Even though
it is clearly documented it is unexpected. It would never have occurred
to me to draw that distinction.

-- 
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com