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On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:24:00 -0700 (PDT) |
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Steve Herber <herber@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I removed a package recently and portage keeps wanting to put it back |
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> into the system. How can I find out why portage wants to reinstall |
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> it? Here is a cleaned up example: |
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> emerge --ask --verbose --deep --update world |
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> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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> [ebuild N ] media-video/vcdimager-0.7.23 USE="-minimal -xml" 986 |
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> kB [ebuild U ] dev-lang/php-5.2.10 [5.2.9-r2] |
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> [ebuild U ] net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.0.11 [1.9.0.10] |
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> [ebuild U ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.11 [3.0.10] |
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> [ebuild U ] sys-fs/udev-141 [124-r2] |
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> [ebuild U ] sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.6-r2 [1.0.5-r1] |
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> [blocks b ] >=sys-fs/udev-126 (">=sys-fs/udev-126" is blocking |
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> sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.5-r1) |
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> Total: 6 packages (5 upgrades, 1 new), Size of downloads: 55,215 kB |
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> Conflict: 1 block |
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> How can I find the package that keeps pulling in vcdimager? |
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> Thanks, |
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Use 'emerge -avDu world --tree' |
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In general, 'qdepends -Q foo' will return packages that depend on foo |
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if you have portage-utils |
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Joseph Booker |
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