Gentoolkit

Gentoolkit contains a whole bunch of useful tools to help manage your packages and keep track of what is going on in your system.

revdep-rebuild

Gentoo’s Reverse Dependency rebuilder. It will scan your installed ebuilds to find packages that have become broken as a result of an upgrade of a package they depend on.

To run in pretend mode:

revdep-rebuild -p

Note:

  • To get revdep-rebuild to re-evaluate reverse dependencies delete the temporary files - as suggested when the command fails:

    rm /root/.revdep-rebuild*.?_*