Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Steve Herber <herber@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] how to find reverse dependencies?
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:24:10
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0906261919520.19208@thing.com
1 I removed a package recently and portage keeps wanting to put it back
2 into the system. How can I find out why portage wants to reinstall it?
3 Here is a cleaned up example:
4
5 emerge --ask --verbose --deep --update world
6
7 Calculating dependencies... done!
8 [ebuild N ] media-video/vcdimager-0.7.23 USE="-minimal -xml" 986 kB
9 [ebuild U ] dev-lang/php-5.2.10 [5.2.9-r2]
10 [ebuild U ] net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.0.11 [1.9.0.10]
11 [ebuild U ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.11 [3.0.10]
12 [ebuild U ] sys-fs/udev-141 [124-r2]
13 [ebuild U ] sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.6-r2 [1.0.5-r1]
14 [blocks b ] >=sys-fs/udev-126 (">=sys-fs/udev-126" is blocking sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.5-r1)
15
16 Total: 6 packages (5 upgrades, 1 new), Size of downloads: 55,215 kB
17 Conflict: 1 block
18
19 How can I find the package that keeps pulling in vcdimager?
20
21 Thanks,
22
23 --
24 Steve Herber herber@×××××.com work: 206-221-7262
25 Software Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] how to find reverse dependencies? Joseph Booker <joe@××××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] how to find reverse dependencies? Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] how to find reverse dependencies? Benny Pedersen <me@××××.org>