Re: [gentoo-user] Difference between --update and --emptytree?

[Michael Hampicke]

Am 31.03.2013 05:12, schrieb Walter Dnes:
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 10:04:24PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote
>> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
>>>   Did an update today.  After the update, I checked again...
>>>
>>> [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv --update --changed-use world
>>>
>>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>>>
>>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>>
>>> Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB
>>>
>>>   Good... nothing to add... I think.  But replace "--update" with
>>> "--emptytree", and a whole bunch of new and updated stuff shows up.  Is
>>> there a logical explanation?  Should I emerge world?  Or just the new
>>> and updated stuff (with the -1 flag)?  Here are listings of the new and
>>> updated stuff...
>>
>> The extra stuff is probably build-time deps, which do not get updated
>> by default. Try this:
>>
>> emerge -pv --update --changed-use --with-bdeps=y world
>
>   I see nothing at all to be emerged...
>
> ====================================================================
> [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv --update --changed-use --with-bdeps=y world
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
> Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB
> ====================================================================

You can also try adding --deep to your emerge options.

Or double check with eix -u -c

>
>   I've written an "autodepclean" script that I run to guide me through
> cleaning up orphaned dependancies.  Think of it as a "sane depclean".
> After each use, I run revdep-rebuild to ensure that nothing is broken.
> Could this be at the root of my situation?
>

What do you mean by sane depclean? Are there any problems with
--depclean that I am not aware of?