>>>>> When this was asked a few weeks ago someone then asked why >>>>> --with-bdeps Y isn't the default? This seems to burn nearly everyone >>>>> once in awhile. >>>>> >>>> Because using --with-bdeps y causes unnecessary compilation of packages >>>> that don't need t0 be changed. They won't be used again until the >>>> dependent package is updated, so why waste time rebuilding them in the >>>> interim? >>>> >>>> No one really gets "burned" by this, they just wonder why installed >>>> packages aren't upgraded, nothing stops working. >>>> >>> >>> I added: >>> >>> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps n" >>> >>> to make.conf and ran 'emerge --depclean' and it got rid of a bunch of >>> stuff, but I'm still confused by boost. --depclean didn't remove it, >>> 'emerge -avDuN world' doesn't downgrade it even --with-bdeps y, but >>> 'emerge -pv boost' would downgrade it. I also re-emerged twinkle and >>> rb_libtorrent which are the packages that depend on boost, but the >>> result is the same. >>> >>> Also man seems to be broken after that --depclean. When I try to use >>> it, I get errors starting with: >>> >>> sh: /usr/bin/unlzma: No such file or directory >>> >>> - Grant >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> This may help. >> >> r...@smoker / # equery belongs /usr/bin/unlzma >> [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/unlzma in *... ] >> app-arch/lzma-utils-4.32.7 (/usr/bin/unlzma -> lzma) >> r...@smoker / # >> >> I would rebuild that or see why it is not already installed. I would >> think that would be part of system??? I'm not sure tho. > > I seem to recall some switch from LZMA to BZ2 manpages in an > etc-update recently ...
emerging lzma-utils fixed it, thank you. I always etc-update as soon as the packages are built. Should lzma-utils be a dependency of something? - Grant
