On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:49:22 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:

> I've just experimented a bit with that and it turned out that 
> --depclean doesn't clean up the buildtime-only deps. But if I
> remove one of them (eg. cabextract), they don't get pulled in again
> (that's indicating the depending ebuilds are written properly).

Emerge defaults to --with-bdeps=n except when using --depclean, when it
uses --with-bdeps=y. man emerge explains.


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