On Wednesday 26 Apr 2017 11:51:54 Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-04-26 10:53, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > # revdep-rebuild --library 'libstdc++.so.6' -- --exclude="gcc gentoo- > > sources" --jobs --load-average=48 > > > > ...only to find that gentoo-sources was indeed emerged, though gcc > > wasn't. What's gone wrong here? I've always found that style of > > specifying exclusions to work before. > > How does gentoo-sources depend on libstdc++ ?? > > My guess is that it doesn't, and that it wouldn't have been emerged had > you not mentioned it at all. I think revdep-rebuild does some dumb > string substitution when constructing the emerge command line, such that > gentoo-sources ends up being an atom name rather than exclusion.
The reason I mentioned gentoo-sources on the command line is that I'd already tried revdep-rebuild without mentioning it, with the same result (gentoo-sources emerge started), and I was trying to prevent it and avoid the waste of resources. > Maybe > > --exclude gcc --exclude gentoo-sources > > would work? Nope. I tried that too. I just had to wait while all that pointless work was done again. -- Regards Peter
