Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -avDuN world' doesn't find everything

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

>>>>>> When this was asked a few weeks ago someone then asked why
>>>>>> --with-bdeps Y isn't the default? This seems to burn nearly everyone
>>>>>> once in awhile.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Because using --with-bdeps y causes unnecessary compilation of packages
>>>>> that don't need t0 be changed. They won't be used again until the
>>>>> dependent package is updated, so why waste time rebuilding them in the
>>>>> interim?
>>>>>
>>>>> No one really gets "burned" by this, they just wonder why installed
>>>>> packages aren't upgraded, nothing stops working.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I added:
>>>>
>>>> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps n"
>>>>
>>>> to make.conf and ran 'emerge --depclean' and it got rid of a bunch of
>>>> stuff, but I'm still confused by boost.  --depclean didn't remove it,
>>>> 'emerge -avDuN world' doesn't downgrade it even --with-bdeps y, but
>>>> 'emerge -pv boost' would downgrade it.  I also re-emerged twinkle and
>>>> rb_libtorrent which are the packages that depend on boost, but the
>>>> result is the same.
>>>>
>>>> Also man seems to be broken after that --depclean.  When I try to use
>>>> it, I get errors starting with:
>>>>
>>>> sh: /usr/bin/unlzma: No such file or directory
>>>>
>>>> - Grant
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This may help.
>>>
>>> root@smoker / # equery belongs /usr/bin/unlzma
>>> [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/unlzma in *... ]
>>> app-arch/lzma-utils-4.32.7 (/usr/bin/unlzma -> lzma)
>>> root@smoker / #
>>>
>>> I would rebuild that or see why it is not already installed.  I would
>>> think that would be part of system???  I'm not sure tho.
>>
>> I seem to recall some switch from LZMA to BZ2 manpages in an
>> etc-update recently ...
>
> emerging lzma-utils fixed it, thank you.  I always etc-update as soon
> as the packages are built.  Should lzma-utils be a dependency of
> something?
>
> - Grant

Weird, --depclean wants to remove lzma-utils again even though:

# equery depends lzma-utils
[ Searching for packages depending on lzma-utils... ]
dev-libs/mpfr-2.3.2 (app-arch/lzma-utils)
media-libs/libpng-1.2.34 (app-arch/lzma-utils)
media-libs/netpbm-10.44.00-r1 (app-arch/lzma-utils)
net-dns/dnsmasq-2.45 (app-arch/lzma-utils)
net-misc/netkit-rsh-0.17-r9 (app-arch/lzma-utils)
sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r2 (app-arch/lzma-utils)
sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20071202044231-r1 (app-arch/lzma-utils)
sys-devel/m4-1.4.11 (app-arch/lzma-utils)
sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.27-r2 (app-arch/lzma-utils)
sys-libs/gpm-1.20.5 (app-arch/lzma-utils)

Maybe it's listed as a build-time dependency of coreutils when it
should be runtime?

- Grant