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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 15:48:33
Message-Id: 40A63AAC.4060808@skylineaero.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] odd dependencies by Marius Mauch
1 Marius Mauch wrote:
2 > On 05/14/04 Andrew Gaffney wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >>In my digging for how Portage really works, I've come across yet
6 >>another oddity. In 'emerge -ep xfree', I get:
7 >>
8 >>[ebuild N ] sys-devel/bc-1.06-r5
9 >>
10 >>but 'qpkg -q -nc -I bc' shows:
11 >>
12 >>sys-libs/glibc-2.3.3_pre20040420
13 >>DEPENDED ON BY:
14 >> elfutils-0.94-r1
15 >> prelink-20040317
16 >>sys-devel/bc-1.06-r5 <---------
17 >>DEPENDED ON BY: <---------
18 >> SYSTEM PROFILE <---------
19 >>dev-libs/libcroco-0.5.1
20 >>DEPENDED ON BY:
21 >> librsvg-2.6.4
22 >>dev-libs/libcdio-0.66
23 >>DEPENDED ON BY:
24 >> vcdimager-0.7.20
25 >>
26 >>If bc is only in the system profile and not depended on by anything
27 >>else, why is it getting dragged in by xfree?
28 >
29 >
30 > Because portage checks the system profile everytime, not just for
31 > `emerge system`.
32
33 Then why doesn't the *entire* system profile get included?
34
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Re: [gentoo-dev] odd dependencies Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>