Eli, On Monday, 2025-12-22 20:16:25 -0500, you wrote:
> ... > """ > does option "--getbinpkg" imply "--with-bdeps=n" for ALL packages or > only for those installable from the binhost > """ > > Answer: for all packages. Alternatively, "it doesn't matter since > getting a source package and *building it* will install build deps, as > well as runtime deps". So while upgrading "@world", "ebuild" packages take care of themselves regardless of options "--getbinpkg" and "--with-bdeps", updating or in- stalling binary packages via option "--getbinpkg" will skip the install- ation of build dependencies, and option "--depclean" will implicitly set "--with-bdeps=y" and will thus prevent build dependencies of "ebuild" packages from being perpetually uninstalled by every "emerge --depclean" after a "@world" upgrade just to be reinstalled at the next upgrade of an "ebuild" package. In other words: there may well be use cases for option "--with-bdeps", but in the normal cycle of manually adding or removing a few packages to or from "@world", upgrading "@world" and running "emerge --depclean" af- terwards this option should not be specified. Thank you for the clarification and Merry Christmas to you and the whole Gentoo community :-) Sincerely, Rainer
