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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Sebastian Sitaru <s.sitaru@×××.de>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update problem
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:31:31
Message-Id: tkrat.fbaf060aa9028283@igpm.rwth-aachen.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update problem by Sebastian Sitaru
1 On 17 Oct, Sebastian Sitaru wrote:
2 > Hello Helmut,
3 >
4 > maybe that www-client/epiphany is a dependency after a package update (e.g.
5 > version 1.0 of package X requires package y, but version 0.9 of X does
6 > not). Another reason can be the USE-flags. May when you have been building
7 > a packge you temporarily disabled an USE-flag (USE="-flag-to-disable"
8 > emerge x), which is in your make.conf and activates an optional dependency
9 > (in this www-client/epiphany, epiphany requires a newer version of
10 > www-client/firefox and so on).
11 > Hopefully this helped you a bit.
12
13 Many thanks, you're right.
14 equery depends www-client/epiphany
15 showed that gnome-base/gnome
16 pulled in www-client/epiphany.
17
18 Helmut.
19
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21 Helmut Jarausch
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23 Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
24 RWTH - Aachen University
25 D 52056 Aachen, Germany
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