Bug 105953

Summary:	emerge wont recompile certain packages after -gpm is added to USE flags
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Xander <xander>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	VERIFIED INVALID
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Xander 2005-09-14 04:23:37 UTC

I installed the system with gpm. After a while i decided to uninstall gpm and 
add the -gpm flag to my USE flags.

I ran emerge --deep --update --newuse world. It recompiled some packages.

Some days later after a reboot i found out that php mod_php and aspell had to be 
recompiled aswell. (i found this while running revdep-rebuild)


Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
Not tried it due to no free system to do it.

1. merge gpm, mod_php, php and aspell (without -gpm in USE flags)
2. add -gpm to USE flags
3. unmerge gpm
4. emerge --deep --update --newuse world
5. restart apache (to see if the php module still works)

solve:
run repdev-rebuild

Actual Results:  
-

Expected Results:  
when running emerge with the --newuse flag the packages php, mod_php and aspell 
should be recompiled aswell

Severity is major because of the fact that apache wont work without php, this 
can be pretty bad for some people, Although i think this bug wont occure verry 
often.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-09-14 04:26:27 UTC

This is not a bug, emerge --newuse is not designed to fix dependencies caused by
unmerging a library, you need to use revdep-rebuild for that.