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Mike Gilbert: |
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> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Dan Johansson <Dan.Johansson@×××.nu> wrote: |
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>> Hello, |
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>> |
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>> Some of my servers are running with a kernel without module-support. |
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>> On these servers something has started to pull in sys-apps/kmod, which when compiled complains about missing modules-support in the kernel (as it should). |
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>> Doing an "equery d sys-apps/kmod" I can see that the following two packages depends on sy-apps/kmod: |
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>> sys-fs/udev-197-r8 (kmod ? >=sys-apps/kmod-12) |
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>> virtual/modutils-0 (sys-apps/kmod[tools]) |
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>> sys-fs/udev has "-kmod" in its USE-flags, so that should not be an issue). |
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>> # emerge --verbose --pretend sys-fs/udev |
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>> [ebuild R ] sys-fs/udev-197-r8 USE="acl openrc -doc -gudev -hwdb -introspection -keymap -kmod (-selinux) -static-libs" 0 kB |
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>> |
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>> With virtual/modutils its an other thing, here we have a circular dependency between virtual/modutils and sys-apps/kmod if the tools USE-flag is set. |
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> That circular dep is interesting; sys-apps/kmod only depends on |
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> virtual/modutils because it inherits linux-mod.eclass. |
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> Could you file about about the circular dependency please? |
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I recognized another issue possibly caused by inheriting linux-mod.eclass: |
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kmod is pulling in virtual/linux-sources as a dependency, which actually |
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is not necessary at all (and maybe even annoying, it's at least some |
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hundred megabytes). |
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