Neil Bothwick writes: > On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 17:59:52 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > No, there is something wrong here. When I updated portage, it also > > remerged libreoffice. Upgrading claws-mail updated > > dev-libs/libdbusmenu and dev-libs/libindicate, and wanted to remerge > > libreoffice, which I avoided. > > Next, I updated chromium, which also remerged libreoffice. Again. > > > > And whatever package I try to update, emerge wants to remerge > > libreoffice. Happens with all the packages I tried, which are > > adobe-flash, python, zsh, xterm. > > If portage believes LO needs to be rebuilt, it will try to do so > whichever packages you are emerging, just let it happen.
I already did that, twice, when updating portage and chromium. emerge still wants to remerge libreoffice whenever I upgrade a package. > With a suitable > --jobs setting, portage will emerge all the other packages before LO is > done. No, at least with portage, the installation happened after libreoffice was installed. weird ~ # emerge -1uaj portage These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild r U ] app-office/libreoffice-4.1.2.2-r1 [4.1.2.2] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.2.7 [2.2.0_alpha188] [...] >>> Emerging (1 of 2) app-office/libreoffice-4.1.2.2-r1 >>> Emerging (2 of 2) sys-apps/portage-2.2.7 >>> Installing (1 of 2) app-office/libreoffice-4.1.2.2-r1 >>> Installing (2 of 2) sys-apps/portage-2.2.7 >>> Jobs: 2 of 2 complete Load avg: 3.06, 2.76, 2.63 Alex