Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Big, ugly qt blockage

[Mark Haney]

Duncan wrote:
> Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> posted
> 5bdc1c8b0906100550w9fc59a0g64f0244abc1ee74c@××××××××××.com, excerpted
> below, on  Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:50:24 -0700:
>
>> I think the real problem I'm facing in the future is that emerge -e
>> @system is building FAR too many things that shouldn't be part of
>> @system. Nearly half the packages on this computer (339 out of 815) are
>> getting pulled in as part of the 'system'. I don't believe it's every
>> been this high. I have recollections that this used to be sub-100
>> packages.
>>
>> @system is pulling in cups, parts of Gnome, hplip, qt, and pretty much
>> all of X11.
>>
>> What are others seeing?
>>
>> I suspect that none of that is required to allow my computer to boot. It
>> seems to be some sort of use flag inflation - some packages tells me
>> that I need a flag somewhere, and that somewhere is part of @system, and
>> suddenly @system is pulling in hundreds of packages.
>
> FWIW, here, emerge -pve @system returns 149 packages.  emerge -pve @world
> (which does NOT include @system in my config, newer portage without
> @system in @world, tho of course there's some overlap due to @world
> packages depending on stuff pulled in by @system as well), returns 864
> packages.  Both in a single merge returns 893 packages.


Okay, I'm at a loss here, I've been using the ~amd64 version of portage,
which supports sets, however I'm not able to do an 'emerge -pve @system'
as I get:

octavian ~ # emerge -pve @system
!!! '@system' is not a valid package ato

So, what's up with that?  Do I need to download the sets files again?


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