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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -avDuN world' doesn't find everything
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:13:18
Message-Id: 4988CF4D.7040503@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -avDuN world' doesn't find everything by Grant
1 Grant wrote:
2 >>> When this was asked a few weeks ago someone then asked why
3 >>> --with-bdeps Y isn't the default? This seems to burn nearly everyone
4 >>> once in awhile.
5 >>>
6 >> Because using --with-bdeps y causes unnecessary compilation of packages
7 >> that don't need t0 be changed. They won't be used again until the
8 >> dependent package is updated, so why waste time rebuilding them in the
9 >> interim?
10 >>
11 >> No one really gets "burned" by this, they just wonder why installed
12 >> packages aren't upgraded, nothing stops working.
13 >>
14 >
15 > I added:
16 >
17 > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps n"
18 >
19 > to make.conf and ran 'emerge --depclean' and it got rid of a bunch of
20 > stuff, but I'm still confused by boost. --depclean didn't remove it,
21 > 'emerge -avDuN world' doesn't downgrade it even --with-bdeps y, but
22 > 'emerge -pv boost' would downgrade it. I also re-emerged twinkle and
23 > rb_libtorrent which are the packages that depend on boost, but the
24 > result is the same.
25 >
26 > Also man seems to be broken after that --depclean. When I try to use
27 > it, I get errors starting with:
28 >
29 > sh: /usr/bin/unlzma: No such file or directory
30 >
31 > - Grant
32 >
33 >
34 >
35
36
37 This may help.
38
39 root@smoker / # equery belongs /usr/bin/unlzma
40 [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/unlzma in *... ]
41 app-arch/lzma-utils-4.32.7 (/usr/bin/unlzma -> lzma)
42 root@smoker / #
43
44 I would rebuild that or see why it is not already installed. I would
45 think that would be part of system??? I'm not sure tho.
46
47 Dale
48
49 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -avDuN world' doesn't find everything Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>