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On 05/14/04 Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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> In my digging for how Portage really works, I've come across yet |
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> another oddity. In 'emerge -ep xfree', I get: |
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> [ebuild N ] sys-devel/bc-1.06-r5 |
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> but 'qpkg -q -nc -I bc' shows: |
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> sys-libs/glibc-2.3.3_pre20040420 |
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> DEPENDED ON BY: |
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> elfutils-0.94-r1 |
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> prelink-20040317 |
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> sys-devel/bc-1.06-r5 <--------- |
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> DEPENDED ON BY: <--------- |
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> SYSTEM PROFILE <--------- |
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> dev-libs/libcroco-0.5.1 |
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> DEPENDED ON BY: |
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> librsvg-2.6.4 |
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> dev-libs/libcdio-0.66 |
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> DEPENDED ON BY: |
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> vcdimager-0.7.20 |
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> If bc is only in the system profile and not depended on by anything |
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> else, why is it getting dragged in by xfree? |
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Because portage checks the system profile everytime, not just for |
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`emerge system`. |
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Marius |
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Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be |
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Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
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