emerge --with-bdeps=y during @world updates

Dave Sizer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Figured I would branch this one out to its own thread:

On Mon, 16 Mar 2026, Dave Sizer wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Mar 2026, David Bryant wrote:
>
> [...]
>>
>>  localhost ~ # emerge --sync
>>  localhost ~ # emerge --ask --newuse --deep --update --with-bdeps=y @world
>>  localhost ~ # emerge --ask --depclean
>>  localhost ~ # eclean -d distfiles
>>
>>  I've done it this way for five years with very few problems.
>>
>>  -- 
>>  D. Bryant
>>  Canyon Lake, Texas
>>
>> 
>> 
>
> That's pretty close to what I've been doing, except I don't add 
> --with-bdeps=y.
> When looking at the emerge manpage, if I'm understanding correctly, that is 
> the
> default for "install" operations, and wouldn't updating @world count as an 
> install
> operation and therefore have that enabled by default?
>
> - Dave
>
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