Re: [gentoo-user] Stray dependency on virtual/x11-7.0-r2

[Greg Bur]

On 9/17/06, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> I just switched to modular X, and got to the point where the system
> comes up okay.
> I have a few remaining puzzles and problems.  Here's one:
>
> When I do emerge -aDvu world, it wants to emerge
> [ebuild  N    ] virtual/x11-7.0-r2  USE="dri" 0 kB
>
> The migration guide says this can happen when there's an outdated package.
> But equery says there are well over 100 such packages that depend on
> virtual/x11.  And they're all up to date.  I've been running stable so
> far, with
> very few exceptions.  Am I really to go unstable with all of these?  This
> seems
> extreme in view of the fact that a great many of them are KDE things, but
> KDE seems to be working just fine.
>
> What's a guy to do?  Can I get away with just waiting for a while?



emerge -aDvut will show the dependency tree which should tell you which
package requires virtual/x11-7.0-r2.  Once you have narrowed down which
package requires it to be installed you can deal with it from there.
Instead of going unstable with your entire system you can add the offending
package to /etc/portage/package.keywords for instance.  If it's a package
you know you don't need you could also remove it.  HTH

Regards,

Greg