On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 02:34:41PM -0400, Jack wrote
> My guess is that it isn't libffi that needs re-emerging, but things  
> that depend on it.  I have 3.30_rc0 installd (both dev_libs and  
> virtual) and I have no libffi.so.6 anywhere to be found.  Have you  
> tried revdep-rebuild?  Either that, or "emerge -pc virtual/libffi" and  
> them emerge -1 everything it lists.

  Facepalm.  I did revdep-rebuild when the update first failed part way
through, but not at the most recent failure.  After another
revdep-rebuild, Pale Moon (web browser) now starts up.  The list of
pending updates is down from 15 to 9.  I'm now run the (hopefully) final
emerge update run.

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Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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