On Thu, 2015-03-12 at 17:51 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > On 03/12/2015 02:43 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Why is --dynamic-deps=y default? This feels like lying about your true > > > > deps, I am probably missing > > > > something here, an example would be great:) > > > > > > It's a legacy behavior, since portage has always behaved this way, and > > > ebuild developers have relied > > > upon > > > it (resulting in broken dependency calculations without it). > > > > Here is odd difference: > > > > emerge --dynamic-deps=n changed-deps=y -a1 vanilla-sources > > ... > > Nothing to merge > > > > That's normal, because --changed-deps implies --selective (a number of > options do this). If you add -- > selective=n to the above command, you'll get the same result regardless of > the --changed-deps option.
I just did a sync and "emerge -aNDu --dynamic-deps=n --changed-deps=y --selective=n world" and again portage wanted to rebuild > 150 pkgs. --selective=n seems to be the culprit, should I expect this from --selective=n ? Jocke
