Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking - after emerge -C cvs ssmtp

[PaulNM]

dhk wrote:
> dhk wrote:
>> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>> On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:24:22 +0000, dhk wrote:
>>>
>>>> 1) The cvs I removed because I want to try subversion, but when I do
>>>> an "emerge -uDNp world" cvs shows in the list.  The
>>>> /var/lib/portage/world doesn't have cvs in it either.  This isn't a
>>>> Blocking problem, but
>>>> every update installs cvs again.
>>>
>>> That's because something on your system depends on cvs. This is not a
>>> problem, programs hat need cvs will use cvs, those that want subversion
>>> will use that. Instaling both does no harm.
>> I just was to get rid of cvs since I'm not using it.  How do I find
>> what depends on it?
> This one is resolved.  After doing and emerge --search cvs there were
> two cvs packages installed:  cvs and colorcvs.  When I did and emerge -C
> cvs and then emerge -uDNp world, cvs was back in the list to get
> installed again.  After doing an emerge -C colorcvs the cvs package
> didn't show up in the emerge -uDNp world list.
>

For future reference, emerge has a --tree (-t) option to show what 
packages are pulling in others.

PaulNM
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