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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eix-test-obolete
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 14:18:35
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0805130718k78863e56nefa92005aeb3f2ba@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] eix-test-obolete by reader@newsguy.com
1 On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 6:05 AM, <reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
2 > When running `eix-test-obsolete' after update world and revdep-rebuild
3 > I get a list of 14 pkgs under the heading as listed below.
4 > What does this mean... I'm running ~x86 and have been for yrs so the
5 > ones that show `U' should have gotten updated during ... -vuD world.
6 >
7 > root # emerge -vp dev-lang/nasm
8 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
9 > [...]
10 > [ebuild U ] dev-lang/nasm-2.02 [2.00] USE="-build -doc" 713 kB
11 >
12 > Shows it will be updated. So why is -vuD world missing this pkg (and
13 > the others)?
14 >
15 > Some.. maybe all show piles of dependencies and some ..(the ones I've
16 > grepped so far) do not appear in world file.
17 >
18 > I guess I don't understand how the system got these packages but
19 > appears not to know much about them.
20
21 Try adding --with-bdeps y and see if that addresses it. I've got this
22 in my make.conf file
23
24 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y"
25
26 Hope this helps,
27 Mark
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Re: [gentoo-user] eix-test-obolete Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
[gentoo-user] Re: eix-test-obolete reader@×××××××.com