Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -avDuN world' doesn't find everything

[Grant]

>>>>> 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
>>>
>>> - Grant
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> This may help.
>>
>> root@smoker / # equery belongs /usr/bin/unlzma
>> [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/unlzma in *... ]
>> app-arch/lzma-utils-4.32.7 (/usr/bin/unlzma -> lzma)
>> root@smoker / #
>>
>> I would rebuild that or see why it is not already installed.  I would
>> think that would be part of system???  I'm not sure tho.
>
> I seem to recall some switch from LZMA to BZ2 manpages in an
> etc-update recently ...

emerging lzma-utils fixed it, thank you.  I always etc-update as soon
as the packages are built.  Should lzma-utils be a dependency of
something?

- Grant