[gentoo-dev] pushing dependencies of installed packages forward.

Hi all,

I've a problem which I cannot find a solution to in gentoo.

Assume 
A depends on D
B depends on >=D-2
C depends on >=D-3

Further assume that I install packages A, B and C independently, and 
in that order.

Now it would seem that I have three versions of D (D-1, D-2, D-3) 
installed, but according to the packages dependencies they would all 
be happy with th latest version. So far I've been unable to find a 
tool which lists these situations for me. I just today found that I 
had 4 versions of db installed and I'm unsure wether i actually 
_need_ all of them or if some users of db could do with a health 
recompile towards a newer version.

I checked with "qpkg -q D" and it says "A,B,C" depends on it. I get 
the same answer to "qpkg -q D-2" and "qpkg -q D-3", so apparently 
qpkg -q only lists _possible_ dependencies according the the emerge 
file and current installed versions of D, rather than the actually 
compiled-in dependency.

Any suggestions as to how one can sort this out?

/A






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