309181 – revdep-rebuild: Add blurb to man page describing "there are no ebuilds to satisfy..."

Bug 309181 - revdep-rebuild: Add blurb to man page describing "there are no ebuilds to satisfy..."

Summary: revdep-rebuild: Add blurb to man page describing "there are no ebuilds to sat...

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Tools (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage Tools Team

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Reported:	2010-03-12 20:22 UTC by Paul Varner (RETIRED)
Modified:	2022-10-20 02:43 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Flags:	fuzzyray: Bugday+

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Description Paul Varner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-12 20:22:04 UTC

I have seen a lot of forum posts lately about the following error when running revdep-rebuild:

emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "kde-base/kcminit:3.5".

We should add a section to the man page describing what this means and what to do about it.