On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
> > What to do? Can I safely ignore the revdep-rebuild messages?
> I think you can safely ignore that (unless you're running java
> applications that use sound/alsa). the java packages are binary, that
> means that you don't compile it according to your use flags, you install
> the "whole package", so some libraries (like libalsasound.so) will
> complain if you don't have alsa support. I'm having this problem with
> opera and libXm but I just ignore it.
>
Thanks.
> btw, is there anyway to tell revdep-rebuild to ignore a package? it's
> really not comfortable to run revdep-rebuild -p and then manually
> re-install the packages that complain (because I don't want it to
> re-install opera every time).
>
I usually emerge those packages directly with emerge---simple enough
unless they're too many.
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Jorge Almeida
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