On Tue, Sep 20 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:57:03 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> When revdep-rebuild --library is suggested should we run it >> before or after the ordinary revdep-rebuild that we typically >> run after each update world? >> (That was actually my original question :-) > > You should run it first, because the elog message is telling you to run > that command, not revdep-rebuild, which is usually unnecessary. The > reason revdep-rebuild alone finds nothing to rebuild is because portage > has ensured that nothing is broken by preserving the old library version. > > With a recent enough portage, emerge @preserved-rebuild should avoid the > need for revdep-rebuild entirely, although in this case it doesn't quite > manage that.
Thank you. allan
