>> 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
