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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] confusing depclean output
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:37:15
Message-Id: 49391264.6000709@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] confusing depclean output by "Michael P. Soulier"
1 Michael P. Soulier wrote:
2 > On 04/12/08 Dale said:
3 >
4 >
5 >> Yep, I had to add that option to mine a while back for --depclean to
6 >> work. Add that and it should run cleanly afterwards. You could also
7 >> --oneshot those in the list and it should work. I haven't tried that yet
8 >> but read it works.
9 >>
10 >
11 > The docs on this seem wrong.
12 >
13 > --with-bdeps < y | n >
14 > In dependency calculations, pull in build time dependencies that
15 > are not strictly required. This defaults to 'n' for installa-
16 > tion actions and 'y' for the --depclean action. This setting
17 > can be added to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS (see make.conf(5)) and later
18 > overridden via the command line.
19 >
20 > But it doesn't seem to default to y for --depclean. I get completely different
21 > results when I set --with-bdeps=y on --depclean.
22 >
23 > Mike
24 >
25
26 Try this command:
27
28 emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps y world
29
30 When that is done, then try the --depclean, with a -p first. ;-)
31
32 Dale
33
34 :-) :-)