Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> If you guys did a emerge -uDav world anytime these past few days. I'm
> sure you'll be hit by the libcom_err.so.3 error. 
> 
> This was really bad. Ruined half my working day since I can't get Evo to
> come up. 
> 
> Anyway, the ebuild _does_ mentioned breaking compatibility and stuffs.
> 
> 
> $grep einfo /usr/portage/sys-libs/com_err/*.ebuild
> 
>         einfo "PLEASE PLEASE take note of this"
>         einfo "Please make *sure* to run revdep-rebuild now"
>         einfo "Certain things on your system may have linked against a"
>         einfo "different version of com_err -- those things need to be"
>         einfo "recompiled.  Sorry for the inconvenience"
> 
> Which is a huge bummer since most of us don't go checking the ebuilds
> for these specific lines. How I wish It would just abort and BLAST the
> Einfo on the screen for me to see the next day and decide to do it
> manually.
> 
> Oh well... It's fixed.
> 
> 
> 

Shouldn't revdep-rebuild solve issues like that?  I always run revdep-rebuild 
after updates and I don't recall having any problem with this com_err update ( 
I know lots of others did though :-( ).

Zac
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