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From: Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:04:26
Message-Id: 20080302220434.GB2966@princeton.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion by maxim wexler
1 On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 01:34:30PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked:
2 > Re-emerged gentoolkit.
3 >
4 > Now I get:
5 >
6 > heathen@localhost ~ $ equery depends
7 > =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r3
8 > [ Searching for packages depending on
9 > =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r3... ]
10 > app-office/dia-0.95.1 (python?
11 <snip>
12 > sys-libs/libcap-1.10-r9 (python?
13 > >=virtual/python-2.2.1)
14 > heathen@localhost ~ $
15 >
16 > Again, not "nothing". I can't unmerge all this stuff
17 > can I? Should I still run python-updater etc?
18
19 python-updater should've been run after you installed a new version of
20 python (I'm pretty sure it is in the ebuild).
21
22 equery depends is not smart enough to know that there is another
23 python on your system that satisfies the dependencies. What you should
24 look for in the output of equery depends is whether any of the
25 dependencies (as listed in the paranthesis after the package name) is
26 a hard dependency on a particular version of python.
27
28 Basically, look for something that says =virtual/python-2.3 or
29 <=virtual/python-2.3 or something like that.
30
31 My cursory glance at the output you send suggests that nothing
32 explicitly depends on that particular version of python. So you
33 *should* be able to unmerge the old one. If something does break...
34 then file a bug at b.g.o.
35
36 W
37 --
38 "Let me just make sure this is not on my list to avoid."
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