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.mckin...@gmail.com
