On 8/17/2010 3:49 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > >> USE only affects optional dependencies. euse -I hal will list packages >> that have a hal USE flag while emerge --depclean -pv sys-apps/hal will >> show those that depend o it. > > I've just experimented a bit with that and it turned out that > --depclean doesn't clean up the buildtime-only deps. But if I > remove one of them (eg. cabextract), they don't get pulled in again > (that's indicating the depending ebuilds are written properly). > > Is this a bug ?
--depclean is supposed to pull in build-time dependencies, unless you specify "--with-bdeps n". So if that's not happening, then I'd say it is a bug.
