On Saturday 14 November 2009 01:13:06 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > However, it did get to the point where it was complaining about two > > packages and the number of files to be rebuilt went (IIRC) 52, 50, 50, > > so I decide since it was rebuilding 50 packages the 2nd & 3rd times it > > wasn't going to improve. Might not be true though. > > I think it is being over-cautious, which results in packages being > rebuilt multiple time unnecessarily, but I's rather give it the chance to > fix itself. That said, I've never had a list anything like 50 packages > long, but I do update frequently. >
The only relevant facts I have ever seen myself are that ldd was telling me a lib was required and portage had already told me via depclean that it wasn't... It's totally possible that what the OP is running into is something I've never had to track down -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
