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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -1 `eix -Iu --only-names` & removing old version of Python
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:14:01
Message-Id: 20080901221354.68cdd70d@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -1 `eix -Iu --only-names` & removing old version of Python by Mick
1 On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 11:49:36 +0100, Mick wrote:
2
3 > No! --depclean is evil! :)) (and/or my system is borked).
4
5 Neither.
6
7 > It tells me to remove dev-python/pycrypto, when portage seems to depend
8 > on it:
9 >
10 > # equery depends dev-python/pycrypto
11 > [ Searching for packages depending on dev-python/pycrypto... ]
12 > sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 (!build? >=dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r6)
13
14 equery is borked. pycrypto is a conditional dependency of portage, but
15 equery depends takes no accounts of that, emerge --depclean does.
16
17 > Also, it tells me to remove hdparm-8.6. I noticed that there is a 8.7
18 > version available, but emerge -uDv world does not pick this up . . .
19 > why would that be so?
20
21 hdparm used to be part of system AFAIR, it is no longer. If you want it,
22 add it to world.
23
24
25 --
26 Neil Bothwick
27
28 We can sympathize with a child who is afraid of the dark, but the
29 tragedy of life is that most people are afraid of the light.

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