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On Sunday 17 September 2006 08:18, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> I just switched to modular X, and got to the point where the system |
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> comes up okay. |
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> I have a few remaining puzzles and problems. Here's one: |
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> When I do emerge -aDvu world, it wants to emerge |
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> [ebuild N ] virtual/x11-7.0-r2 USE="dri" 0 kB |
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I have to say that I am a bit curious as to which package would require you to |
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install virtual/x11. Please add --tree to `emerge -aDvu world` and show what |
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pulls this in. |
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virtual/x11 is a virtual package which means it depends on a number of other |
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packages but provides nothing other than it's dependencies... |
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> The migration guide says this can happen when there's an outdated package. |
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Sounds about right... |
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> But equery says there are well over 100 such packages that depend on |
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> virtual/x11. |
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As has been said before on this list equery is broken and unreliable. Last I |
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checked it had 44 open bugs against it. When a 100 packages show up for |
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`equery depends virtual/x11` it means that 100 packages have a dependency |
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that could be satisfied by virtual/x11. That's quite different from 100 |
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packages depend on virtual/x11. In most if not all of those cases one or |
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several other packages would be able to satisfy the same dependency hence |
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virtual/x11 isn't actually required at all (at least on my system it isn't): |
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$ eix -e x11 |
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* virtual/x11 |
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Available versions: 6.8 7.0-r2 |
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Installed: none |
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Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ |
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Description: Virtual for the core X11 implementation |
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$ equery depends virtual/x11 | wc -l |
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387 |
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$ emerge -uvpD world |
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These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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Calculating world dependencies... done! |
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Total size of downloads: 0 kB |
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> And they're all up to date. I've been running stable so far, |
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> with very few exceptions. Am I really to go unstable with all of these? |
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Nope. |
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> This seems extreme in view of the fact that a great many of them are KDE |
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> things, but KDE seems to be working just fine. |
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Of course. |
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[SNIP] |
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Can I get away with just waiting for a while? |
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Sure. |
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Bo Andresen |
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