On Monday, 26 February 2018 15:24:40 GMT Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 02/26/2018 10:16 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Well, I'm on amd64, not ~amd64, and this morning portage wanted to > > remerge 217 packages. Removing --changed-deps reduced that to one: > > sys-devel/llvm. > You do need to reinstall those. > > The latest (un)stable versions of automake are hard-coded in > autotools.eclass, and they wind up in the dependency string of every > ebuild that uses the eclass. It's stupid, we don't need to do it, and it > breaks all of those packages for other PMS-compliant package managers > (--changed-deps is portage-only). Sorry, we can't make people not do > this, apparently.
Right. Now where do I submit my claim for two-and-a-half hours of time spent on pointless recompiling? ;-) -- Regards, Peter.