On 6/16/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:34:51 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Please correct me if I'm wrong but if what revdep-rebuild does is > > important then I want to kow about any program on my system that > > doesn't have all it's dependencies met, right? Seems that OO-bin has > > this problem and, unless I find out what USE flags the -bi versio was > > built with and match them in my setup then I'm going to be subject to > > a problem. (possibly...) > > revdep-rebuild is irrelevant to ooo-bin, and others, because you cannot > rebuild a binary package. All it does is reinstall the same binary, not > build a new one. > Right, but.....the errors within revdep-rebuild are not irrelivant to a user who's just run revdep-rebuild and has to sort through a number of errors to decide what to do. My point was that I'd like to know how my copy of oo-bin was built/linked so that I could (possibly) set my systems up so that everything is 100% cool.
It's only slightly frustrating to deal with that. Not a big deal. And since oo-bin hasn't crashed on me in quite awhile it would seem that whatever the dependency issues are they aren't serious. thanks, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
