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From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] odd dependencies
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 16:51:58
Message-Id: 200405160150.08158.jstubbs@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] odd dependencies by Andrew Gaffney
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4 On Sunday 16 May 2004 00:43, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
5 > Marius Mauch wrote:
6 > > On 05/14/04 Andrew Gaffney wrote:
7 > >>In my digging for how Portage really works, I've come across yet
8 > >>another oddity. In 'emerge -ep xfree', I get:
9 > >>
10 > >>[ebuild N ] sys-devel/bc-1.06-r5
11 > >>
12 > >>but 'qpkg -q -nc -I bc' shows:
13 > >>
14 > >>sys-libs/glibc-2.3.3_pre20040420
15 > >>DEPENDED ON BY:
16 > >> elfutils-0.94-r1
17 > >> prelink-20040317
18 > >>sys-devel/bc-1.06-r5 <---------
19 > >>DEPENDED ON BY: <---------
20 > >> SYSTEM PROFILE <---------
21 > >>dev-libs/libcroco-0.5.1
22 > >>DEPENDED ON BY:
23 > >> librsvg-2.6.4
24 > >>dev-libs/libcdio-0.66
25 > >>DEPENDED ON BY:
26 > >> vcdimager-0.7.20
27 > >>
28 > >>If bc is only in the system profile and not depended on by anything
29 > >>else, why is it getting dragged in by xfree?
30 > >
31 > > Because portage checks the system profile everytime, not just for
32 > > `emerge system`.
33 >
34 > Then why doesn't the *entire* system profile get included?
35
36 Something wrong with qpkg it seems... it probably doesn't check further if
37 it's a system package.
38
39 bc < openssl < perl < xfree
40
41 Regards,
42 Jason Stubbs
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