Matthias Fechner schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I tried today to build vim but it fails.
> Now I want to make sure all packages needed by vim are installed
> correctly. To do this I decided to reinstall all packages need be vim.
>
> I checked the man page of emerge but could not found an option for this.
>
> Is there a possibility to reinstall all packages needed by vim?
>
>
> Thanks
> Matthias
>
> -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
> build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying
> to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning."
> -- Rich Cook
Normally portage handels the depencies himself, so everything should be
installed.
Do revdep-rebuild to check that.
Provide ous some more information about how vim fails. Runtime, build or
what failure you get.
The problem with reinstlling all dependencies is, how deep you would
like to go. To check the whole dependency tree use
# equery depgraph vim