Bug 270401 – dev-libs/DirectFB: two leftover files

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Martin Mokrejš 2009-05-19 10:05:49 UTC]

# revdep-rebuild
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* Found some broken files that weren't associated with known packages
* The broken files are:
*   /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.20/inputdrivers/libdirectfb_sdlinput.la
*   /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.20/systems/libdirectfb_sdl.la
# ls -la  /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.20/inputdrivers/libdirectfb_sdlinput.la /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.20/systems/libdirectfb_sdl.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1163 Sep 19  2006 /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.20/inputdrivers/libdirectfb_sdlinput.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1128 Sep 19  2006 /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.20/systems/libdirectfb_sdl.la
# rm  /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.20/inputdrivers/libdirectfb_sdlinput.la /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.20/systems/libdirectfb_sdl.la
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I do have DirectFB-1.2.7 installed. How could that happen? Am on ~x86.

[Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2009-05-19 15:14:13 UTC]

I assume that they are from "directfb-0.9.20" based on the file name. In this case, it looks like they got orphaned somehow. I would make backups and remove them, then see what happens.