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. r...@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) r...@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. Dale :-) :-)