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Daniel Rolls wrote: |
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> Can anybody explain or refer to an explanation of how |
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> dependencies work in Gentoo? |
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Well, when you use the -p flag it says: "These are the packages that I |
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would merge, in reverse order:" I interpret that as being package A |
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needs B so B will be installed BEFORE A. |
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Are you following me here? |
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With that being said, if B needs deps too then depB will be installed |
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before B AND before A. SO...if x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme is at the |
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root of a tree it has to be the first dep needed by a dep of kde (or |
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directly by kde) which portage has so graciously figured out for you. |
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Or I could tell you that you just need to read the tree output from the |
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bottom up to figure it out ;) I encourage you to try "emerge -pve |
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xorg-x11" with and without the --tree flag and perhaps it will make more |
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sense. |
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Hope that helps, |
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Jeremy |
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