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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:50:01 -0800
From: "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild reports kde breakage and then says its all okay; what's up with that
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On 10/30/06, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> 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
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