On 5/30/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 10:13 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On 5/30/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think those binary packages > > > propagate into /var/db as well. (IF they do, I think they might not > > > reflect the actual USE flags used to built the binary. > > > > This probably accounts for revdep-rebuild never getting it quite right > > for binary packages like openoffice-bin and always wanting to > > re-emerge it again? > > > > So.. I'm not the only one who gets that. (and I always thought it was > some gremlins) > > Perhaps one can ask chinstrap.alternating.net since they do host binary > packages >
No, you're not the only one. I wondered a bit about this a few weeks ago and found a number of comments in the forums and Bugzilla that revdep-rebuild doesn't work very well yet for binary packages. I see this with openoffice-bin and thunderbird-bin. It seems logical that if I don't know the flags used for a binary build that somewhere along the way I'm going to miss some dependency on my system. Take care and thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
