Hmm... after having updated to portage 2.1 which has become stable, I get this weird output from emerge and revdep-rebuild:
OUTPUT from emerge --pretend --update --deep --newuse world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] net-fs/samba-3.0.22 USE="-ldap*" [ebuild R ] dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03 USE="-mozilla*" [ebuild R ] media-gfx/autotrace-0.31.1-r1 USE="-imagemagick*" [ebuild R ] net-ftp/proftpd-1.2.10-r7 USE="-ldap*" [ebuild R ] app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.2.2 USE="-curl* -ldap*" [ebuild R ] app-crypt/gnupg-1.9.20-r3 USE="-ldap*" [ebuild R ] www-client/mozilla-1.7.13 USE="-ldap*" [ebuild R ] mail-filter/spamassassin-3.1.3 USE="-ldap* -sqlite*" [ebuild R ] gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.4.2.1 USE="-ldap*" [ebuild R ] mail-client/evolution-2.4.2.1 USE="-ldap*" [ebuild R ] media-libs/libsdl-1.2.8-r1 USE="-nas*" [ebuild R ] media-libs/libao-0.8.5 USE="-nas*" [ebuild R ] net-im/gaim-1.5.0 USE="-nas*" [ebuild R ] mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.4 USE="-ldap*" [ebuild R ] net-libs/gecko-sdk-1.7.13 USE="-ldap*" [ebuild R ] gnome-extra/nautilus-cd-burner-2.12.3 USE="-cdr*" [ebuild R ] app-editors/xemacs-21.4.15-r3 USE="-ldap* -nas*" [ebuild R ] dev-libs/apr-util-0.9.7 USE="-ldap*" [ebuild R ] dev-python/gnome-python-2.12.1 USE="-gtkhtml*" [ebuild R ] dev-python/gnome-python-extras-2.12.0 USE="-mozilla*" [ebuild R ] media-video/gpac-0.4.1_pre20060122 USE="-mozilla*" [ebuild R ] net-misc/openssh-4.3_p2-r1 USE="-ldap*" [ebuild R ] media-sound/timidity++-2.13.2 USE="-nas*" [ebuild R ] net-www/apache-2.0.55-r1 USE="-ldap*" [ebuild R ] net-misc/curl-7.15.1-r1 USE="-idn* -ldap*" [ebuild R ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.6-r1 USE="-nas* -sqlite*" [ebuild R ] dev-java/swt-3.2_rc2 USE="-mozilla*" [ebuild R ] dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-r2 USE="-ldap*" [ebuild R ] app-office/openoffice-2.0.2-r1 USE="-ldap* -mozilla*" [ebuild R ] dev-lang/php-5.1.4 USE="-curl* -ldap* -mhash* -sqlite*" [ebuild R ] gnome-extra/gnome-games-2.12.3 USE="-guile*" [ebuild R ] dev-util/eclipse-sdk-3.0.1-r2 USE="-mozilla*" [ebuild R ] dev-lang/swig-1.3.21 USE="-guile*" [ebuild R ] media-gfx/gimp-2.2.8-r1 USE="-gtkhtml*" [ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-2.12.3 USE="-cdr*" [ebuild R ] app-emulation/wine-0.9.8-r1 USE="-ldap* -nas*" [ebuild R ] www-client/elinks-0.10.6 USE="-guile* -idn* -lua*" ------------- OUTPUT from revdep-rebuild --pretend All prepared. Starting rebuild... emerge --oneshot --pretend =sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-r1 =sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-r1 USE="-ip32r10k%" [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1 ------------- Recompiling that much (especially OpenOffice) just because of an update to Portage seems quite excessive to me. - Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list