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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?!
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 14:39:45
Message-Id: 20200721144031.GA6480@stitch
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?! by Grant Edwards
1 On 2020-07-21 13:08:16, Grant Edwards wrote:
2 > On 2020-07-20, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
3 >
4 > > These are build-only dependencies so "emerge --depclean" can remove them
5 > > after you install bind-tools.
6 >
7 > Except it doesn't. I did an "emerge --depclean" after updating
8 > bind-tools, and sphinx et al were not removed.
9 >
10
11 The logic (and documentation) is incomprehensible to me, but this
12 behavior depends on --with-bdeps and some related arguments to emerge.