On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
I seem to recall some switch from LZMA to BZ2 manpages in an etc-update recently ...
