>>>>>>>> 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. >>>> >>>> I seem to recall some switch from LZMA to BZ2 manpages in an >>>> etc-update recently ... >>> >>> emerging lzma-utils fixed it, thank you. I always etc-update as soon >>> as the packages are built. Should lzma-utils be a dependency of >>> something? >>> >>> - Grant >> >> Weird, --depclean wants to remove lzma-utils again even though: >> >> # equery depends lzma-utils >> [ Searching for packages depending on lzma-utils... ] >> dev-libs/mpfr-2.3.2 (app-arch/lzma-utils) >> media-libs/libpng-1.2.34 (app-arch/lzma-utils) >> media-libs/netpbm-10.44.00-r1 (app-arch/lzma-utils) >> net-dns/dnsmasq-2.45 (app-arch/lzma-utils) >> net-misc/netkit-rsh-0.17-r9 (app-arch/lzma-utils) >> sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r2 (app-arch/lzma-utils) >> sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20071202044231-r1 (app-arch/lzma-utils) >> sys-devel/m4-1.4.11 (app-arch/lzma-utils) >> sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.27-r2 (app-arch/lzma-utils) >> sys-libs/gpm-1.20.5 (app-arch/lzma-utils) >> >> Maybe it's listed as a build-time dependency of coreutils when it >> should be runtime? >> >> - Grant >> >> > > coreutils is an lzma archive, so lzma-utils are required to decompress > it. So it seems proper that it's a build-time dep. > > I think there was something about man using lzma IF you had lzma-utils > installed at the time of emerging man. So maybe you can try to unmerge > lzma-utils, then re-emerge man (and maybe convert your lzma manpages > to bz2).
man seems to be working fine without lzma-utils now. It looks like I emerged help2man at some point yesterday so maybe that helped. I think I've gotten to the bottom of my boost problem. I have rb_libtorrent installed which requires >=dev-libs/boost-1.35, meaning boost needs to be in package.keywords. If I remove boost from package.keywords, should portage tell me there is a problem? I like the idea of being able to edit package.keywords and know that portage will either upgrade/downgrade based on the changes, or tell me if there is a depended-on package installed which doesn't have the necessary package.keywords entry. - Grant > Also be sure you've got PORTAGE_COMPRESS set to what you'd like in > your make.conf
