Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

[Dale]

Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@×××××.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>  wrote:
>>> <SNIP>
>>>
>>>> Unless he's the kind of guy who likes to rip his Ferrari apart for kicks and
>>>> put it all back together again so that not even the factory can notice...
>>>>
>>> Precisely... :-)
>>>
>>>
>> Oh, and besides liking the smell of fresh baked 1 and 0's in the
>> morning emerge -e @world was an easy  way to solve my libpng problem.
>> Woke up this morning to a freshly baked Gentoo machine.
>>
>> - Mark
>>
>>
> One interesting thing on the new Ferrari. If I do
>
> ->  emerge --pretend --verbose --newuse --update --deep world
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
> Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB
>
> However
>
> ->  emerge -evp world
>
> [ebuild     U ] x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.2.0 [1.1.0] 49 kB [0]
> [ebuild     U ] sys-devel/automake-1.10.3 [1.10.2] 936 kB [0]
>
> Total: 536 packages (2 upgrades, 534 reinstalls), Size of downloads:
> 1,015 kB
> Portage tree and overlays:
>   [0] /usr/portage
>   [1] /var/lib/layman/science
>
> Where
>
> ->  revdep-rebuild --ignore --pretend --verbose
>
> * Checking dynamic linking consistency
> [ 100% ]
>
>   * Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done.
>
> and
>
> ->  emerge --depclean --pretend --verbose
>
>
>>>> No packages selected for removal by depclean
>>>>
> Packages installed:   538
> Packages in world:    69
> Packages in system:   50
> Required packages:    538
> Number to remove:     0
>
> So emerge -evp is useful to get those last inconsistencies out of the
> system.
>
> --
> Valmor
>
>

You can add this option to help with those:  --with-bdeps y  I consider 
it -D on steroids.  I actually added it to make.conf so that I don't 
have to type it in each time.

Dale

:-)  :-)