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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge --depclean" vs. "revdep-rebuild"
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:17:48
Message-Id: 49F4CF73.9020403@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge --depclean" vs. "revdep-rebuild" by Mark Knecht
1 Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 1:27 PM, David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 >
4 >> As a "cleanup" test, I've run "emerge --depclean" and "revdep-rebuild".
5 >>
6 >> "emerge --depclean" removed approx 85 files, which seemed reasonable.
7 >>
8 >> "revdep-rebuild" then rebuilt 7 or 8 packages -- also reasonable.
9 >>
10 >> When I run the commands again, "emerge --depclean" removes the packages
11 >> that "revdep-rebuild" just rebuilt.
12 >>
13 >>
14 >
15 > In make.conf try adding:
16 >
17 > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y"
18 >
19 > Hope this helps,
20 > Mark
21 >
22 >
23 >
24
25 That worked here a good while back as well. This may make it compile a
26 bit more at times but it does have a lot of benefits as well.
27
28 Dale
29
30 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge --depclean" vs. "revdep-rebuild" David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com>