On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 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
Yeah... removing all those bdeps is probably not a good idea. Plus, they'll just have to be re-emerged next time you emerge anything that needs them.
