On Sun, 09 May 2010 04:19:20 -0500, Dale wrote: > You are right. This has been discussed a few times on -dev and > basically, it ain't going to happen. I think it is a good idea myself > since they have to be re-emerged for them to work anyway. What > difference does it make if portage does it for us or we do it manually, > after finding that command to find out which ones to rebuild.
This could be solved with sets, a @need-rebuild set similar to @preserved-rebuild. Sets also deal with the original suggestion, since re-emerging a set rebuild all the components of the set, although not their dependencies, unlike rebuilding a meta-package. Although this still can't do what was asked for because a set will contain apps and not the libs they depend on. -- Neil Bothwick I'll never forget the 1st time I ran Windows, but I'm trying...
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