> What I don't understand is why doesn't it just do this: > > emerge app-admin/gnome-system-tools app-editors/gedit app-text/evince > gnome-base/control-center gnome-base/gdm
because there are slotted packages - and revdep-rebuild would have to take the newest version within the same slot. That is a task, that is not very simple - well, actually portage (emerge itself) has a major bug for slotted packages: emerge only noticed updates within the latest slot (so portage will not notice any update to gcc 3.3 if you've got gcc 3.4 installed, for example) > In other words, why does it try to force the = and the version? > > More often than not, if I take those off (like the second line), then shit > just works. yes, it does because you're lucky and don't have slotted packages in that line. > I've tried the flag --package-names, but it doesn't seem to do anything > different. > Am I being retarded? I remember, that it once worked for me! really! You have to remove ~/.rev* and then run "revdep-rebuild --package-names" again.
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