On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 14:32:49 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> > That means, after you install a package, if the deps in the ebuild are
> > changed, portage will take that into account for source builds, but
> > binary packages are LOCKED to the deps from the time they were built.
> > 
> > Why dynamic-deps aren't available no matter what? Now that's a great
> > question...  
> 
> But I'd only just finished an emerge -eb world on the build host to
> re-create the packages. Nothing could have changed in the meantime.

Those extra packages are build deps. When you emerge -k, you aren't doing
any building, so the build deps aren't needed. They need not even be
installed on that box, only on the one doing the building.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Barnum was wrong....it's more like every 30 seconds!

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