There are certain programs (openoffice-bin-1.1.0 being a primary example) which depend specifically on db-3.1, and things break if these binaries are installed without their dependencies present. Attached is an ebuild for db-3.1.17, which IMHO should return to portage in order to satisfy binary package dependencies relating to libdb-3.1.so. If anyone can tell me whether or not this package can be given a different slot to db-3.2, it would be very much appreciated - if it is possible, I will update the ebuild as necessary. There are some patches, commented out in this ebuild, which I am not sure of the relevance to db-3.1. If anyone knows whether or not they are in fact relevant, or better still can backport the patch, please say so! Also any testing on other architectures would be much appreciated. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 20529 [details] Ebuild for db-3.1.17
Closing this, as the relevant packages, it transpires, supply their own db-3.1 and the problem is with revdep-rebuild.
