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From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@×××××××.net>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-libs/db & dev-lang/php dependency problem...
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:54:56
Message-Id: 20091104195448.GF12983@vidovic
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/db & dev-lang/php dependency problem... by Alex Schuster
1 On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:47:41AM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
2
3 > I just posted a message ("emerge --depclean does not remove due to link
4 > level dependencies") due to similar issues. My guess is that php links to
5 > some sys-libs/db library, even if db is not a dependency to php.
6
7 To be correct, if php links to db, db _IS_ a dependency of php. If
8 portage is not aware of this dependency, the _ebuild_ is wrong and miss
9 a declaration for this dependency.
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12 Nicolas Sebrecht