On 12/30/2015 06:54 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > emerge output: > The following pkgs are causing rebuilds: > [list of pkgs] > > I suspect this ground has been covered in depth but finding a good > discussion of what it means is a different story. So, is this bad news? > Or something that needs my attention...? >
You used to have to run revdep-rebuild to find packages that needed to be rebuilt after an update. Portage got smarter, and now some of those rebuilds can be triggered automatically. It's perfectly normal and expected. The underlying mechanism is subslot dependencies: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sub-slots_and_Slot-Operators
