When I do: sudo emerge -avDuN world some of the packages are not updated. When I do: emerge -avc it complains of required packages not being installed. When I do: emerge -ave world it reports 8 upgrades, 1 new, 1 in new slot, 1035 reinstalls. The missing packages are: U app-arch/cabextract-1.3 U dev-lang/fpc-2.4.0 N dev-python/cython-0.13 U dev-python/markupsafe-0.11 U dev-lang/yasm-1.1.0 U dev-java/ant-nodeps-1.8.1 U sys-apps/ed-1.4 NS sys-devel/gcc-4.3.4 U dev-python/sphinx-1.0.4 U dev-python/jinja-2.5.5 I apologize for not have a copy paste. The computer is not connected to the internet at the moment. While I can of course merge these packages one by one, it is quite annoying that emerge -avDuN world does not work. This is a problem that I have seen at other times. I don't have any idea what causes the problem or how to reproduce it. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: Actual Results: Missed 10 packages in emerge -avDuN world Expected Results: All packages are upgraded/installed.
You should try --with-bdeps=y as mentioned in the faq: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/faq.xml
Yes, that works great. Can someone explain the reasoning behind having different defaults for -DuN vs -av --depclean?
People typically don't want build-time deps removed by --depclean, since they'll have to install them again anyway the next time they are needed for updates.
