From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7tBa-0007yj-Q6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:40:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C6622E02CB; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 17:38:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f53.google.com (mail-pz0-f53.google.com [209.85.210.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 858DFE02CB for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 17:38:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk3 with SMTP id 3so1398613pzk.40 for ; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:38:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=u9y5WYVL1PtlPSBeWOUcWW5BdjLCJHKlO6ugpR976TE=; b=mzp8CDNDIJueZpqd/unLMY5fS2hkA/3LuqgvotN8QH/VbL6NXdSvZO/dBbRpLB9T/H kdCQ73eeiyl0tfxwmNwWEQgnXYJ+tk14tlXkZDSH5Kia5Y2+Gjk7Zq4i958CMvYWqi5O iuQpvIv5MuF2GOgjc4zniMdvz76eaLAQNo+Lk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Nt6FF+I0MNTKI4qh76cdUQIYzkwC2+8bJpw4gxZDmvgaNHtRbF0yq6eQPWrrVl4Ip1 pI9Q+u4bsUIuxagVTwvzlVYShOang2MdxuPMpT4nez/KAnimjRC10EdecpxDfOmaSym6 oEU15t+B8Q6IkhQFVeXHM00LD+OFMwAJxDew8= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.186.5 with SMTP id j5mr548120wff.328.1302197900718; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:38:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.40.196 with HTTP; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 10:38:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 10:38:20 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild Not Fixing Broken Links From: Brennan Shacklett To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: dhkuhl@optonline.net Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd215dc4cc09a04a0579358 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fb18044a954dbe0b74db0cc3421034b3 --000e0cd215dc4cc09a04a0579358 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > I think that package is there, but I'll check this weekend. I didn't feel like carrying my laptop today. > It would be nice if I just had to install it, but I would think revdep-rebuild should pull it in . . . or doesn't revdep-rebuild work that way? revdep-rebuild will only rebuild the package with the broken link. It won't pull in anything (unless the ebuild pulls something else in), so revdep-rebuild can't fix an issue that needs another package that the ebuild doesn't depend on. --Brennan Shacklett --000e0cd215dc4cc09a04a0579358 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > I think that package is there, but I'll check this weekend.=A0 I d= idn't feel like carrying my laptop today.=A0
> It would be nice = if I just had to install it, but I would think=A0=A0 revdep-rebuild should = pull it in . . . or doesn't revdep-rebuild work that way?

revdep-rebuild will only rebuild the package with the broken link. It w= on't pull in anything (unless the ebuild pulls something else in), so r= evdep-rebuild can't fix an issue that needs another package that the eb= uild doesn't depend on.

--Brennan Shacklett
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