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From: Gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Do I really need to install new packages during upgrade?
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:22:15
Message-Id: 53fc51bb.01c5980a.44e6.3932@mx.google.com
1 I have just tried to upgrade my system (which I do almost every day)
2 and found out that portage wants to install 6 new python packages
3 that seem to be unnecessary because for example
4 # equery depends dev-python/pyopenssl
5 reports that no other package depends on this one.
6
7 The same situation is with all the other python packages.
8
9 # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=60 --ask
10 world
11
12 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
13
14 Calculating dependencies... done!
15 [ebuild U ] app-admin/eselect-ruby-20131227 [20100603]
16 [ebuild N ] dev-python/pyopenssl-0.13.1 USE="-doc"
17 PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3 (-pypy) -python3_2"
18 [ebuild N] dev-python/ndg-httpsclient-0.3.2 PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7
19 (-pypy)"
20 [ebuild N ] dev-python/pyasn1-0.1.7 USE="-doc"
21 PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3 (-pypy) -python3_2 (-python3_4)"
22 [ebuild N ] dev-python/chardet-2.2.1 PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7
23 python3_3 (-pypy) -python3_2 (-python3_4)"
24 [ebuild N ] dev-python/requests-2.3.0 PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7
25 python3_3 (-pypy) (-python3_4)"
26 [ebuild N] dev-python/ssl-fetch-0.2 PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7
27 python3_3 (-pypy) (-python3_4)"
28 [ebuild U ] app-portage/mirrorselect-2.2.2 [2.2.0.1]
29 PYTHON_TARGETS="(-python3_4)"
30
31 Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]

Replies

Subject Author
[gentoo-user] Re: Do I really need to install new packages during upgrade? "Holger Hoffstätte" <holger.hoffstaette@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Do I really need to install new packages during upgrade? Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>