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From: Gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Do I really need to install new packages during upgrade?
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:01:03
Message-Id: 53fc5ad4.abe4980a.6449.3e4e@mx.google.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Do I really need to install new packages during upgrade? by Peter Humphrey
1 On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:42:01 +0100
2 Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3
4 > On Tuesday 26 August 2014 12:21:35 Gevisz wrote:
5 > > I have just tried to upgrade my system (which I do almost every day)
6 > > and found out that portage wants to install 6 new python packages
7 > > that seem to be unnecessary because for example
8 > > # equery depends dev-python/pyopenssl
9 > > reports that no other package depends on this one.
10 > >
11 > > The same situation is with all the other python packages.
12 > >
13 > > # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=60
14 > > --ask world
15 >
16 > It could be that "--with-bdeps=y" term. I took a long time to learn
17 > that lesson, as old-timers may remember.
18 >
19 > What happens if you change y to n?
20
21 In this case, the portage wants to update all the same "unnecessary"
22 python packages and only decides not to update the eselect-ruby.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Do I really need to install new packages during upgrade? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>