Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python-updater always wants to re-emerge certain things.

[Dale]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2008-09-15, Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net> wrote:
>
>
>>> I ran python-updater and it wanted to emerge 7 packages.  I
>>> emerged all of them except openoffice. Then I ran
>>> python-updater again.  It still wants to emerge half of the
>>> packages that I just finished emerging.  What does one have to
>>> do to get a package off the list of things python-updater wants
>>> to build?
>>>
>>> The packages it always wants to build are
>>>
>>>   dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2
>>>   x11-libs/vte-0.16.14
>>>   app-office/gnumeric-1.8.3
>>>
>> Once you get them all emerged, unmerge the old version of
>> python and it will be good to go.  That is my experience
>> anyway.
>>
>
> Unmerging the old version of Python isn't unnecessary.  Once I
> emerge OOo, everything should be indeed be fine.  The question
> is why does python-update think it needs to re-emerge some
> packages that have already been emerged several times since
> Python was updated?
>

 From the times I have ran into this, it always wants to rebuild them 
until I remove the old version.  No clue why but it worked for me.  I 
agree that after being recompiled it shouldn't need to do it again but 
it seems to do the same on my rig.


>
>> I know OOo takes a while, it may be a good idea to emerge it too.
>>
>
> Definitely, but it'll have to wait until the computer can be
> left up for a day or so (it's a laptop, and it's not often in
> one place for that long).
>
>

Yea, that can be tough on a puter that is mobile and not up for a 
while.  It's not like OOo is a 30 minute compile or anything.  It takes 
6 hours or so on this desktop.

Dale

:-)  :-)