From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GebMy-0005c0-B5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:56:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9UHqnjC032313; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:52:49 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9UHo2j7032114 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:50:03 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id p27so1211318ugc for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:50:02 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=V5SrmsDg0/Pd+VK9l/rPv+aQF3nMZJADsND4dTkeoUJ0rkFwKvT1Fc+/PeYGMLNvSHRnoO6qmOAMV8JeykZv6tTuDYPlyWt5Z0XWhk8p40r6oK7ygr0Lokam/6npuy8zzpmw4piK+65jxyWRzebOPmhYY8mazMGKQgTvjH4b1m4= Received: by 10.82.107.15 with SMTP id f15mr799907buc; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:50:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.156.6 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:50:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9acccfe50610300950g3fa268d4k4bb94482bb6b6bba@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:50:01 -0800 From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild reports kde breakage and then says its all okay; what's up with that In-Reply-To: <200610301739.47167.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9acccfe50610290745k4a658dc5k1d67db0f06482af0@mail.gmail.com> <200610301739.47167.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: a3b5ac98-f8c7-4985-ad4e-52ca4c317a54 X-Archives-Hash: 52ba3c410f8af59e6d6de77b04778474 On 10/30/06, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 29 October 2006 15:45, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > When I run revdep-rebuild, it reports a bunch (around 100) breakages > > involving early kde *.la files, but then it reports that > > Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done. > > > > These "broken" files are text, and say they're not to be deleted, but > > equery can't find out for me what package, let alone version, they belong > > to. Could it be that they are abandoned relic artifacts? > > Should I just delete them anyway? > > Run emerge --deep -v -p to see if there's a couple of updated/removed apps > that have left libs cruft behind and need to be removed. I can vaguely > remember going through something like this a few months ago (about > ImageMagick?), so if you do a gmane search you may find it - otherwise post > back and I'll see if I can find it. > > HTH I checked a number of them, and they were clearly orphans: the libraries they were associated with originally had ceased to exist, which makes sense because they where also coordinated with KDE versions (3.2 and such) that I no longer have. So I deleted the lot, and everything seems okay. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list