From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8450F13881D for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2015 15:07:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0110921C078; Sun, 27 Sep 2015 15:07:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f170.google.com (mail-wi0-f170.google.com [209.85.212.170]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A4BA221C012 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2015 15:07:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wiclk2 with SMTP id lk2so71472532wic.1 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2015 08:07:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=to:from:subject:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ZHbFL0xG6qex/YyPfaK9vmxN7PCr0V/c8npGABjv9Yk=; b=T8vSPoiWhttXOvKNuFJUvBjmfUcwub1jKAGk+fQRcMEKg5LRor4ZSrsQ1HzaZvLgL8 qoLGOhsSBkYwjq8sZP7MiuzPRo36biOsZUh/5W5iDqWijeNbO73KP5Nw5rhCDWy8Ge9R nxMcmVDZxIAAdpXJ1zi2PdqSGnsdf0MMdRQrG5ouOw6k2QMQhXDqKanvnHssZSafIwp4 FyKsRbhZa443skNBFJkA2ZUSDfLAHEyFQPGVMvwG0ErZRapitKhKaNiXdEi96EOVN19b G8nF74k7mjCrRcICcqKIgStDLUUa7KRwHUdt7aUIYaUBfnY68OAqiwvLVTKhwuMhKKj2 95cg== X-Received: by 10.180.10.101 with SMTP id h5mr12890686wib.22.1443366450330; Sun, 27 Sep 2015 08:07:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (105-237-149-222.access.mtnbusiness.co.za. [105.237.149.222]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id r9sm13494031wjz.35.2015.09.27.08.07.28 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 27 Sep 2015 08:07:29 -0700 (PDT) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Alan McKinnon Subject: [gentoo-user] dynamic deps, wtf are they exactly X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <56080616.5090406@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 17:07:02 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cbbb32b8-4eaf-4490-be51-70467bb4bf36 X-Archives-Hash: d7fc517349361e5f029be947413f547c Does anyone here know what dynamic deps are exactly, how they work and can describe them? There's lots of talk over on -dev about getting rid of them and the closest description is from Ciaran, something like: "ancient shit that never worked right, involving phases of the moon" 10 days ago I switched to --dynamic-deps=m in make.conf, had to emerge -e world to get around all the resulting kde hard blocks, and all was good till today, kio-extras was blocking plasma-workspace in impossible ways, noticeably that the block wasn't in the ebuild at all :-) kio-extras and dolphon were to be upgraded, plasma-workspace was not. I've fixed it (remerge plasma-workspace to clean up cruft). I would have thought emerge -e would have cleaned all that stuff out, maybe it's related to removing the kde overlay. So, my question: wtf are dynamic deps? How do I find the records they must leave behind in portage? -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com