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On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 10:54 AM Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Why does portage insist on installing busybox for me? |
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> As far as I know the only use for it on a desktop system is for |
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> initramfs. I have no initramfs, therefore I have no need for busybox. |
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> I unmerged it and nothing bad happened except for a warning from portage |
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> that it is part of my profile set. I went ahead and ignored the |
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> warning. |
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> But now I updated the tree and emerge -p shows it will be installed |
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> again. Why is that? The only reverse dependencies are virtuals which |
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> are satisfied in other ways, like virtual/awk. So is it the profile |
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> thing? But I have done the same with other profile packages (notably |
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> editors/nano) and those are _not_ coming back. |
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> -- |
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> Ian |
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emerge is your friend. Something like |
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emerge -p -e |
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should. I believe, tell you where every package dependency comes from. |
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It's not always fun to read but the answer to your question should be there. |
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- Mark |
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