Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:39:04
Message-Id: 20100227113810.18bf6217@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around? by Dale
1 On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:11:11 -0600, Dale wrote:
2
3 > I ran into this a long time ago and I added this to my make.conf so
4 > that I don't forget. Try running this:
5 >
6 > emerge -uvDNa --with-bdeps y world
7 >
8 > Then see what that does. That added bit makes it look deeper into
9 > dependencies. Like you, I thought that was what the -D did but
10 > apparently that only goes to a certain depth then stops.
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12 -D goes as deep as you can, but the default when emerging is to consider
13 only runtime dependencies, not buildtime ones. After all, if it is
14 already installed, you don't need the bdeps any more.
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18 Neil Bothwick
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