[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] "emerge -ef world" and "eclean --destructive distfiles" do not agree

[Erik <esigra@gmail.com>]

Alan McKinnon skrev:
> On Saturday 23 February 2008, Erik wrote:
>   
>> I check with the file klibc-1.5.8.tar.bz2.
>> # emerge -up klibc
>>
>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>>
>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>> [ebuild     U ] dev-libs/klibc-1.5.8 [1.5]
>>
>> So it seems like klibc is outdated but "emerge -uDNav world" does not
>> want want to update it!
>> # equery d klibc
>> [ Searching for packages depending on klibc... ]
>> sys-apps/v86d-0.1.3 (dev-libs/klibc)
>> localhost ~ # grep sys-apps/v86d /var/lib/portage/world
>> sys-apps/v86d
>>
>> So sys-apps/v86d is in world and depends dev-libs/klibc, but yet
>> "emerge -uDNp world" does not want to update dev-libs/klibc, like
>> "emerge -up dev-libs/klibc" wants to!
>>     
> This looks like a --bdeps situation.

That was it, thanks!


> I can think of two ways to accomplish what you are asking for
>
> - use "--with-bdeps y" or include it in EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS
> - put klibc in world
>   
I did the first way. Now I can run "emerge -ef world;eclean 
--destructive distfiles" repeatedly without anything being downloaded. 
(The second way is not what I want. The only reason I have klibc is to 
build v86d.)
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