On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:58:52 -0400 Allan Gottlieb <[email protected]> wrote:
> > First one emerges *broken* packages. > > Second one emerge packages *using* png14 (not necessarily broken) > > OK. But the claim was that: if > revdep-rebuild > with no argument found nothing to build, then > revdep-rebuild --library <some-library> > will find nothing. > > This guarantee is apparently no long true as my example in another msg > illustrated. Michael is indeed correct. A careful reading of the man page reveals the usage of the words "broken" and "using" exactly like he said. So I stand humbly corrected. I find revdep-rebuild's behavior in this respect confusing. Even though it is clearly documented it is unexpected. It would never have occurred to me to draw that distinction. -- Alan McKinnnon [email protected]
