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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Why nepomuk suddenly?
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 12:54:01
Message-Id: 7772897.YAJBp48IJY@wstn
1 It's my turn to seek help understanding portage.
2
3 Yesterday my daily update required a reinstallation of kdelibs with the
4 nepomuk flag switched on, and that pulled in nepomuk-core and nepomuk-widgets.
5 But according to equery, those three packages have only a conditional
6 dependence on nepomuk:
7
8 prh@wstn ~ $ equery d nepomuk-core
9 * These packages depend on nepomuk-core:
10 kde-base/kactivities-4.13.3 (nepomuk ? >=kde-base/nepomuk-core-4.13.3:4[aqua=])
11 kde-base/kdelibs-4.14.8 (nepomuk ? >=kde-base/nepomuk-core-4.14.3:4[aqua=])
12 kde-base/nepomuk-widgets-4.14.3 (>=kde-base/nepomuk-core-4.14.3:4[aqua=])
13 kde-base/plasma-workspace-4.11.19 (nepomuk ? >=kde-base/nepomuk-core-4.11.19:4[aqua=])
14 prh@wstn ~ $ emerge --info | grep nepomuk
15 prh@wstn ~ $ equery d nepomuk-widgets
16 * These packages depend on nepomuk-widgets:
17 kde-base/kdelibs-4.14.8 (nepomuk ? >=kde-base/nepomuk-widgets-4.14.3:4[aqua=])
18
19 Nepomuk doesn't appear in emerge --info, so why does portage insist that
20 kdelibs requires nepomuk?
21
22 # emerge -cv nepomuk-widgets nepomuk-core
23
24 Calculating dependencies .... done!
25 kde-base/nepomuk-core-4.14.3 pulled in by:
26 kde-base/kdelibs-4.14.8 requires >=kde-base/nepomuk-core-4.14.3:4[-aqua]
27 kde-base/nepomuk-widgets-4.14.3 requires >=kde-base/nepomuk-core-4.14.3:4[-aqua]
28
29 kde-base/nepomuk-widgets-4.14.3 pulled in by:
30 kde-base/kdelibs-4.14.8 requires >=kde-base/nepomuk-widgets-4.14.3:4[-aqua]
31
32 The version of kdelibs has not changed recently, nor have I made changes to
33 make.conf or package.use.
34
35 Something odd is going on.
36
37 --
38 Rgds
39 Peter

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Re: [gentoo-user] Why nepomuk suddenly? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>