On 27/09/2013 10:24, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > would anybody please be so kind to explain to me the rational used by > portage to re-emerge > some packages. > > I've installed portage 2.2.7 and when I try to emerge, say, > app-shells/zsh-completions > it re-emerges (emerge -vp shows 'rR') several packages including, i.e., > app-office/libreoffice > > I can't imaging libreoffice depends in any way on zsh-completions. > > So, what's going on? > > (and rebuilding libreoffice isn't just fun) > > Many thanks, > Helmut.
You didn't supply any output or any details about your system, so your question can't be properly answered. I can make a guess, so from the man page: r reinstall (forced for some reason, possibly due to slot or sub-slot) R replacing (remerging same version) I'd guess libreoffice needs to be rebuilt and is triggered by a sub-slot (in the old days you would have had to run revdep-rebuild or emerge @preserved-rebuild to find this) I imagine this is in no way related to zsh-completions, that just happens to be on the command line. It's related to running emerge. If you require a better answer, please provide proper emerge output. Rage questions don't usually lead to correct explanations -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com