[gentoo-user] Re: broken libraries but library-linking is consistent ;-)

[Caster <cast3r@gmail.com>]

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> according to revdep-rebuild, quite a few libraries on my system are
broken.
> But at the end of revdep-rebuild, it tells me, my system was consistent.

This means the broken libraries don't belong to any package. Something
touched/altered them (probably fix libtool script when updating gcc) so they
had different mtime/md5sum than what was recorded in the package db. Such
altered files are not unmerged. It's quite safe to delete them. I suppose
you updated kde 3.4 to 3.5 and unmerged the old 3.4... as the kde
configuration howto says, you can remove whole /usr/kde/3.4 dir (but look
into there first and use common sense :) For that avifile stuff, I have no
idea which package it came from, but probably you can remove it too (or is
it something installed not from portage?)

> I think some libraries are really broken, because the sound of my vlc
> player stutters sometimes lately.

I don't suppose it could have this effect. Broken linking usually means
stuff won't run at all :)

Caster

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