Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater

2008-09-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 01 September 2008 18:43:35 Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Matthew R. Lee wrote: Yesterday I was having problems with a few packages, like openoffice, because of java issues. The advice I found to correct the problem was to run python-updater, which I did. It reemerged 33

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater

2008-09-02 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 01 September 2008 18:43:35 Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Matthew R. Lee wrote: Yesterday I was having problems with a few packages, like openoffice, because of java issues. The advice I found to correct the problem was to run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater

2008-09-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 September 2008 09:28:41 Dale wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # revdep-rebuild -i --ask- I entered this -- Encountered unrecognized option --ask. -- It said this -- revdep-rebuild no longer automatically passes unrecognized options to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater

2008-09-02 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2008 09:28:41 Dale wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # revdep-rebuild -i --ask- I entered this -- Encountered unrecognized option --ask. -- It said this -- revdep-rebuild no longer automatically passes unrecognized options

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater

2008-09-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 September 2008 10:12:33 Dale wrote: Which is what the output was telling you all along. Previously you didn't need the --, but that leads to all manner of horrible screw-ups   A, I gotcha.  Keep in mind I'm not a programmer here.  Not real sure what the -- means

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater

2008-09-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:42:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's just a convention. revdep-rebuild launches some other process (emerge) so when it does that it takes everything it finds on it's own command line after the -- and passes it on to emerge literally. it's quite a common trick,

[gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater

2008-09-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Matthew R. Lee wrote: Yesterday I was having problems with a few packages, like openoffice, because of java issues. The advice I found to correct the problem was to run python-updater, which I did. It reemerged 33 packages one of which was alsa-libs. It reemerged alsa-lib, it did not upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater

2008-09-01 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Monday 01 September 2008 12:23:03 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Matthew R. Lee wrote: Yesterday I was having problems with a few packages, like openoffice, because of java issues. The advice I found to correct the problem was to run python-updater, which I did. It reemerged 33 packages one of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater

2008-09-01 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Matthew R. Lee wrote: Yesterday I was having problems with a few packages, like openoffice, because of java issues. The advice I found to correct the problem was to run python-updater, which I did. It reemerged 33 packages one of which was alsa-libs. It reemerged

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater

2008-09-01 Thread John covici
on Monday 09/01/2008 Matthew R. Lee([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Monday 01 September 2008 12:23:03 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Matthew R. Lee wrote: Yesterday I was having problems with a few packages, like openoffice, because of java issues. The advice I found to correct the problem was