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On 12/31/06, Marek Wróbel <smbmarek@×××××××××××.pl> wrote: |
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> Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > <SNIP |
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> > I'm proceeding along getting a number of packages removed which is |
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> > good. However here's an example one I'm not sure how to handle or why |
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> > it's showing up. I've run --depclean -p and see what appears to be an |
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> > unneeded library called libwmf. However when I try tracing my way back |
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> > to find what depending on it I eventually get to xine-ui which I use |
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> > all the time: |
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> > |
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> > lightning ~ # equery d libwmf |
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> > [ Searching for packages depending on libwmf... ] |
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> > media-gfx/imagemagick-6.3.0.5 |
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> > lightning ~ # equery d imagemagick |
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> > [ Searching for packages depending on imagemagick... ] |
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> > gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.2 |
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> > media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.2-r3 |
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> > media-video/transcode-1.0.2-r3 |
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> > lightning ~ # equery d xine-lib |
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> > [ Searching for packages depending on xine-lib... ] |
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> > media-sound/amarok-1.4.3-r1 |
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> > media-video/xine-ui-0.99.5_pre20060716 |
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> > media-video/totem-2.16.4 |
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> > lightning ~ # |
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> This issue can be related to changes in USE flags. xine-lib depends on |
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> imagemagick only when "imagemagick" USE flag is set. And imagemagck |
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> depends on libwmf only when "wmf" USE flag is set. So these packages |
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> were merged probably when you had these flags set. Later USE flags may |
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> have changed (new portage profile?) and currently they most likely are |
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> not set. |
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> |
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> Moreover, I have noticed that equery takes conditional dependencies into |
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> consideration regardless of USE flags state. Thus it shows that |
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> imagemagick is required by xine-lib even when it actually isn't (because |
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> you don't have "imagemagick" flag set). |
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This is pretty much what happened. I've finished removing all the |
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packages that depclean wanted me to and things look good now. |
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revdep-rebuild is happy. emerge -DuN world is happy. --depclean says |
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there is nothing to clean out. |
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It seems that maybe over time some of the packages higher up have had |
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USE flags added to them. Maybe the old package didn't make a function |
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prunable with a flag so the library got installed and later the flag |
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was added to prune it out but the new emerge only upgraded the package |
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and didn't remove the libraries that were no longer needed. |
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At least hat's the best I can figure out. |
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Everything is clean now. thanks for the help! |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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Happy 2007. Off to have a beer. |
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