Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird portage behaviour
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 14:22:56
Message-Id: 20140414152243.1f192ce8@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird portage behaviour by Peter Humphrey
1 On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 14:32:49 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
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3 > > That means, after you install a package, if the deps in the ebuild are
4 > > changed, portage will take that into account for source builds, but
5 > > binary packages are LOCKED to the deps from the time they were built.
6 > >
7 > > Why dynamic-deps aren't available no matter what? Now that's a great
8 > > question...
9 >
10 > But I'd only just finished an emerge -eb world on the build host to
11 > re-create the packages. Nothing could have changed in the meantime.
12
13 Those extra packages are build deps. When you emerge -k, you aren't doing
14 any building, so the build deps aren't needed. They need not even be
15 installed on that box, only on the one doing the building.
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19 Neil Bothwick
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21 Barnum was wrong....it's more like every 30 seconds!

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