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

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Grant wrote:
>>>> 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 ...