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

Eli Schwartz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 3/16/26 11:26 AM, Dave Sizer wrote:
> 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?



Generally yes, but also,

"""
Since many users of binary packages do not want unnecessary build time
dependencies installed, this option is not automatically enabled for
installation actions when the --usepkg option is enabled.
"""


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Eli Schwartz
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