Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [PATCH v2] Add @unsatisfied-deps package set (bug 248026)
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2021 03:13:16
Message-Id: cb399ef4-9c00-c11c-e9cd-b720636578de@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v2] Add @unsatisfied-deps package set (bug 248026) by Zac Medico
1 On 6/18/21 6:01 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > If emerge --depclean fails to resolve any dependencies, then it will
3 > now suggest emerge @unsatisfied-deps as the simplest possible
4 > solution, and will also suggest to unmerge @unavailable where
5 > appropriate at the end:
6 >
7 > $ emerge --depclean
8 >
9 > Calculating dependencies... done!
10 > * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to
11 > * the following required packages not being installed:
12 > *
13 > * virtual/cdrtools pulled in by:
14 > * app-cdr/cdrdao-1.2.4
15 > *
16 > * Have you forgotten to resolve unsatisfied dependencies prior to
17 > * depclean? The simplest possible command for this purpose is as
18 > * follows:
19 > *
20 > * emerge @unsatisfied-deps
21
22 It turns out that @unsatisfied-deps is often unsuitable here because it
23 pulls in a bunch of @installed packages, when you really want to use
24 @world as the source of truth.
25 --
26 Thanks,
27 Zac

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature

Replies