emerge recompiles

jcat · Veteran Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 1337

Ok, I'll bite. Why does emerge seem to want to recompile apps fairly regularly. Is it to replace files when two or more apps provide a specific file or something? What gives?

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mark_alec · Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 11:47 am Post subject:

Without providing examples of package that are being emerged often, it is hard to say why. It could simply be that there are often many updates made for the hundreds of packages that you have installed.
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jcat · Veteran Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 1337

Ok. Portage seems to want to recompile kdelibs on a regular basis, sometimes it's an upgrade, but mostely it's a recompile. I'm not too bothered about the specific reasons it's happening on my system, but I am curious as to the possible reasons why this occours. I mean, if a package is installed, it's installed right? (I know I'm wrong when I say that, I just want an explenation

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jcat

Yui · n00b Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 29

If it recompiles that must be for some reason, most of the time the rebuilds are due to flags. So next time it do that, be sure to post the output of emerge -pv kdelibs.
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jcat · Veteran Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 1337

thorpe · Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 12:25 pm Post subject:

The available flags change from time to time.
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Yui · n00b Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 29

I don't know witch flags but well, each time an update rebuilded sth for me it was because of flags.
We can't continue to talk about sth so unspecified.
Give us logs

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