On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:42:01 +0100 Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 August 2014 12:21:35 Gevisz wrote: > > I have just tried to upgrade my system (which I do almost every day) > > and found out that portage wants to install 6 new python packages > > that seem to be unnecessary because for example > > # equery depends dev-python/pyopenssl > > reports that no other package depends on this one. > > > > The same situation is with all the other python packages. > > > > # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=60 > > --ask world > > It could be that "--with-bdeps=y" term. I took a long time to learn > that lesson, as old-timers may remember. > > What happens if you change y to n? In this case, the portage wants to update all the same "unnecessary" python packages and only decides not to update the eselect-ruby.
