On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 12:55 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > But we agree that this just squelches the messages, correct? It's not > making the system's linkages more correct. It's just saying we don't > care about that directory. I think that's fine for binary packages but > it's not the same as having all the dependencies correct. > > It would be nice, I would think, to have some info somewhere on how > the binary package was built - what flags, what gcc, etc., if only for > reference.
As noted elsewhere, the -bin packages are built by the developers of the package and not Gentoo. You are correct that for most binary packages, setting the variable is squelching the messages. However, there are couple of packages that do some specialized linking that I have been unable to duplicate in order to verify that the linking is actually broken. openoffice-bin and azureus-bin are two that I am aware of. For these packages it is easier and better to just squelch the messages. For the binary packages that don't do specialized linking, I prefer that the revdep-rebuild messages not be masked. The reason is that they indicate missing dependencies for the binary package. Regards, Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
