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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] odd dependencies
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 17:05:30
Message-Id: 40A64CB1.4090401@skylineaero.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] odd dependencies by Jason Stubbs
1 Jason Stubbs wrote:
2 > On Sunday 16 May 2004 00:43, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
3 >
4 >>>Marius Mauch wrote:
5 >>>
6 >>>>On 05/14/04 Andrew Gaffney wrote:
7 >>>>
8 >>>>>In my digging for how Portage really works, I've come across yet
9 >>>>>another oddity. In 'emerge -ep xfree', I get:
10 >>>>>
11 >>>>>[ebuild N ] sys-devel/bc-1.06-r5
12 >>>>>
13 >>>>>but 'qpkg -q -nc -I bc' shows:
14 >>>>>
15 >>>>>sys-libs/glibc-2.3.3_pre20040420
16 >>>>>DEPENDED ON BY:
17 >>>>> elfutils-0.94-r1
18 >>>>> prelink-20040317
19 >>>>>sys-devel/bc-1.06-r5 <---------
20 >>>>>DEPENDED ON BY: <---------
21 >>>>> SYSTEM PROFILE <---------
22 >>>>>dev-libs/libcroco-0.5.1
23 >>>>>DEPENDED ON BY:
24 >>>>> librsvg-2.6.4
25 >>>>>dev-libs/libcdio-0.66
26 >>>>>DEPENDED ON BY:
27 >>>>> vcdimager-0.7.20
28 >>>>>
29 >>>>>If bc is only in the system profile and not depended on by anything
30 >>>>>else, why is it getting dragged in by xfree?
31 >>>>
32 >>>>Because portage checks the system profile everytime, not just for
33 >>>>`emerge system`.
34 >>>
35 >>>Then why doesn't the *entire* system profile get included?
36 >
37 >
38 > Something wrong with qpkg it seems... it probably doesn't check further if
39 > it's a system package.
40 >
41 > bc < openssl < perl < xfree
42
43 Wasn't there supposed to be a Python/Perl rewrite of qpkg?
44
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Replies

Subject Author
[gentoo-dev] python/perl rewrite of qpkg Andrew Ross <aross@×××××××××××.au>
Re: [gentoo-dev] odd dependencies Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@g.o>