Abraham Marín Pérez wrote:
> Now think there's a new version available of LIB, let's say version 2.1, 
> but the latest version of APP is still 1.0. If portage performed a deep 
> update by default LIB would be rebuilt, but no APP, what would cause 
> broken dependencies on APP (remember LIB is a dynamic library). However, 
> is you don't update LIB unless you update also APP you will prevent this 
> problem*.

That's what revdep-rebuild is for. Update your LIB, run revdep-rebuild,
and if APP is really broken by the LIB update (it doesn't have to be),
it will be rebuilt.

-- Remy

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