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On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> When this was asked a few weeks ago someone then asked why |
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>>> --with-bdeps Y isn't the default? This seems to burn nearly everyone |
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>>> once in awhile. |
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>> |
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>> Because using --with-bdeps y causes unnecessary compilation of packages |
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>> that don't need t0 be changed. They won't be used again until the |
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>> dependent package is updated, so why waste time rebuilding them in the |
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>> interim? |
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>> No one really gets "burned" by this, they just wonder why installed |
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>> packages aren't upgraded, nothing stops working. |
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> I added: |
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> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps n" |
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> to make.conf and ran 'emerge --depclean' and it got rid of a bunch of |
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> stuff, but I'm still confused by boost. --depclean didn't remove it, |
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> 'emerge -avDuN world' doesn't downgrade it even --with-bdeps y, but |
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> 'emerge -pv boost' would downgrade it. I also re-emerged twinkle and |
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> rb_libtorrent which are the packages that depend on boost, but the |
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> result is the same. |
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> Also man seems to be broken after that --depclean. When I try to use |
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> it, I get errors starting with: |
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> sh: /usr/bin/unlzma: No such file or directory |
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Yeah... removing all those bdeps is probably not a good idea. Plus, |
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they'll just have to be re-emerged next time you emerge anything that |
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needs them. |
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