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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Docbook-sgml-utils needs lynx?
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 20:18:53
Message-Id: 200311251519.08598.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Docbook-sgml-utils needs lynx? by "Patrick Börjesson"
1 On Tuesday 25 November 2003 12:51, Patrick Börjesson wrote:
2 > When doing an update world I saw that something wanted to drag in lynx
3 > to my system, so I did an 'etcat -d lynx' to see what could have caused
4 > portage to think that I needed lynx. The result showed me some packages,
5 > but the only one I had installed was docbook-sgml-utils, so I took a
6 > look at the ebuild for it. In the last row of DEPEND I saw "|| (
7 > net-www/lynx net-www/links )" which I take means that either lynx OR
8 > links have to be installed... This is strange in itself as docbook
9 > shouldn't need a browser to be installed, or? Anyway... I already have
10 > links installed so why does docbook-utils want me to install lynx?
11 >
12 > Patrick Börjesson
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14 the || ( ) usage like that is currently broken
15 the next release of portage is *supposed* to fix it
16 -mike
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