Since my bug bug 219555 was declared to be a copy of bug 128069, but there are a number of user issue that should be address around this issue, at least at the distribution level. If an ebuild tells me to run a program, then I should be able to copy and pass the instruction to the command line as root and have everything work. gentoolkit looks nothing like revdep-rebuild and search on revdep did not work for me or other users see the discussion of bug 128069. I think that a modification of the ebuild file will work here and greatly reduce the number of bugs that get generated for you guys so that more serious work can get done. Thanks. -- chris
Something can be said for either adding app-portage/gentoolkit to the system target or merging it with sys-apps/portage. It's certainly been said before.
Alternatively in this case changing the instruction to mention app-portage/gentoolkit from dev-libs/expat might also fix the problem. The major issue in bug 128069 seems to be that every one and their dog are insisting old/very old version of a library that one cannot have multiple version installed of, I do not see why but at least we could have cleaner easier versions of the work-a-rounds until this is cleared up. Thanks for your time. -- Chris
(In reply to comment #1) > Something can be said for either adding app-portage/gentoolkit to the system > target or merging it with sys-apps/portage. It's certainly been said before. Well, gentoolkit is a whole mess of packages users don't need. I'd be in favor of merging just revdep-rebuild with portage (understanding further that it might not be needed much longer, but waiting is dumb.)
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #1) > > Something can be said for either adding app-portage/gentoolkit to the system > > target or merging it with sys-apps/portage. It's certainly been said before. > > Well, gentoolkit is a whole mess of packages users don't need. I'd be in favor > of merging just revdep-rebuild with portage (understanding further that it > might not be needed much longer, but waiting is dumb.) Well I had planned to merge gentoolkit into portage after 2.2 is released, or at least the important functionality (equivalents for glsa-check and parts of revdep-rebuild are already in 2.2) Might create a new package (not named gentoolkit-dev) for dev tools like repoman, echangelog and co later on to not bloat portage too much.
