On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 6:05 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When running `eix-test-obsolete' after update world and revdep-rebuild > I get a list of 14 pkgs under the heading as listed below. > What does this mean... I'm running ~x86 and have been for yrs so the > ones that show `U' should have gotten updated during ... -vuD world. > > root # emerge -vp dev-lang/nasm > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > [...] > [ebuild U ] dev-lang/nasm-2.02 [2.00] USE="-build -doc" 713 kB > > Shows it will be updated. So why is -vuD world missing this pkg (and > the others)? > > Some.. maybe all show piles of dependencies and some ..(the ones I've > grepped so far) do not appear in world file. > > I guess I don't understand how the system got these packages but > appears not to know much about them.
Try adding --with-bdeps y and see if that addresses it. I've got this in my make.conf file EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y" Hope this helps, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
