Re: [gentoo-dev] where does world update find gnome dependencies with no gnome installed in my gentoo?

[Daniel Robbins]

On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 10:16, mikepolniak wrote:
> With my USE=<no gnome> while building gentoo i do not have any gnome installed.
> I also made sure to not emerge anything with gnome -dependencies.
>
> Today an  emerge --pretend --world update now wants to add  gnome-base/ORBit
> and gnome-libs:

[snip]

> [ebuild   U] x11-wm/fluxbox-0.1.6 to /
> [ebuild N  ] gnome-base/ORBit-0.5.12-r1 to /               <----where does it find this
> [ebuild N  ] media-libs/audiofile-0.2.2 to /
> [ebuild N  ] media-sound/esound-0.2.23 to /
> [ebuild N  ] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.1.2-r3 to /     <----where does it find this

I'm guessing that you *do* have a /var/db/pkg/gnome-base/gnome-libs*
entry, possibly an old one.  Look and see.  You can also do a:

cd /var/db/pkg
grep -r gnome-base/gnome-libs * 

...to see what packaage caused it to be installed.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins                                  <drobbins@g.o>
Chief Architect/President                       http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.