Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Big, ugly qt blockage

[Markos Chandras]

> Duncan wrote:
> > Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> posted
> > 5bdc1c8b0906100550w9fc59a0g64f0244abc1ee74c@××××××××××.com, excerpted
> >
> > below, on  Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:50:24 -0700:
> >> I think the real problem I'm facing in the future is that emerge -e
> >> @system is building FAR too many things that shouldn't be part of
> >> @system. Nearly half the packages on this computer (339 out of 815) are
> >> getting pulled in as part of the 'system'. I don't believe it's every
> >> been this high. I have recollections that this used to be sub-100
> >> packages.
> >>
> >> @system is pulling in cups, parts of Gnome, hplip, qt, and pretty much
> >> all of X11.
> >>
> >> What are others seeing?
> >>
> >> I suspect that none of that is required to allow my computer to boot. It
> >> seems to be some sort of use flag inflation - some packages tells me
> >> that I need a flag somewhere, and that somewhere is part of @system, and
> >> suddenly @system is pulling in hundreds of packages.
> >
> > FWIW, here, emerge -pve @system returns 149 packages.  emerge -pve @world
> > (which does NOT include @system in my config, newer portage without
> > @system in @world, tho of course there's some overlap due to @world
> > packages depending on stuff pulled in by @system as well), returns 864
> > packages.  Both in a single merge returns 893 packages.
>
> Okay, I'm at a loss here, I've been using the ~amd64 version of portage,
> which supports sets, however I'm not able to do an 'emerge -pve @system'
> as I get:
>
> octavian ~ # emerge -pve @system
> !!! '@system' is not a valid package ato
>
> So, what's up with that?  Do I need to download the sets files again?

~amd64 ( aka keyworded ) portage doesnt support sets. You need to update to 
(masked) 2.2_rcX version to use sets
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Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
Gentoo Linux Developer [KDE/Qt/Sunrise/Sound]
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