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Richard Fish wrote: |
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> On 7/17/06, Anthony E. Caudel <acaudel@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I noticed that many of them are dependencies of virtual/x11 so I added |
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>> that to my world file, re-ran the --depclean and this time got only |
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>> about half the recommendations. Was adding virtual/x11 to my world file |
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>> the proper thing to do? Wonder why it wasn't there in the first place? |
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> Probably not. Prior to modular-X, any package that depended on |
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> anything X related would depend on virtual/x11, which originally could |
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> be provided by xfree86 or x.org, but now just x.org. |
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> As part of porting to modular-X, all (well, almost all) packages that |
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> previously depended on virtual/x11 were updated to depend on _either_ |
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> virtual/x11, or the specific modular-X package[s] that they really |
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> needed. |
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> So the above depclean output means that none of those packages are in |
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> your world file, and nothing in your world file depends directly or |
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> indirectly on them, based on your current USE flags. Specifically, |
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> nothing really depends on virtual/x11, because the dependancies are |
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> satified by the various modular-X packages you have installed. |
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> So the proper thing to do here is probably add the specific apps that |
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> you actually care about and use to world. |
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> -Richard |
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Thats a little confusing because most of those are libraries and are |
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dependencies only of virtual/x11. |
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Tony |
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