Corrected here and there. Added info about how emerge is called.

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.TH revdep\-rebuild "1" "May 2005" "gentoolkit"
.SH NAME
revdep\-rebuild \- Gentoo's reverse dependency rebuilder
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BI "revdep\-rebuild [" options "] [" \-\- "] [" emerge_options "]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.RB "The " "revdep\-rebuild" " shell script is a wrapper for " "emerge" "."
It checks for missing library dependencies, finds out which packages
they belong to and then calls
.sp
.nf
.BI "   emerge \-\-oneshot \-\-nodeps [" "emerge_options" "] package\-names"
.fi
.sp
This allows you to easily (re)merge the missing dependencies for the
broken packages.
.sp
This is generally useful if you upgraded or unmerged one package and
find that a program from another package no longer works, possibly
complaining that it cannot find a certain library.
.sp
.RB "If no options are passed to " "revdep\-rebuild" ", it will find"
.RB "any broken dependencies and call " "emerge" " with no options"
and only the package names,
.RB "causing " "emerge" " to (re)merge the packages."
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-\-
.RB "Explicitly terminates the option list for " "revdep\-rebuild" "."
.RB "All further options are passed to " "emerge" " (e.g. " "\-p" ", "
.BR "\-\-pretend" "). Use this when " "revdep\-rebuild" " options and"
.BR "emerge" " options clash."
.TP
.B \-X, \-\-package\-names
recompile based on package names, not exact versions
.br
.TP
.BI "\-\-soname " "soname"
.RI "Find packages that use the " "soname" " library instead of
.RI "searching for broken library dependencies, and pass the
.RB "names of those packages to " "emerge" "."
.TP
.BI "\-\-soname\-regexp " "reg_exp"
.RI "Find packages that use libraries with names matching " "reg_exp"
.RB "and pass the package names to " "emerge" "."
.TP
.B  \-q, \-\-quiet
Be less verbose.
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Prints brief usage info.
.SH "EXAMPLES"
.B revdep\-rebuild \-p
.br
.RB "Searches for broken library dependencies and calls " "emerge \-p"
to print information on the packages which need to be (re)merged.
.sp
.B revdep\-rebuild \-\-soname libstdc++.so.5
.br
.RI "Finds packages with binaries linked against " "libstdc++.so.5"
.RB "and calls " "emerge" " to (re)merge those packages.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR "emerge" "(1), " "grep" "(1)"
.SH AUTHORS
This informative man page was written by Karl Trygve Kalleberg 
<[e-mail]>.
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Edited only so slightly by JeR <[e-mail]>.