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From: "Sebastian Günther" <samson@××××××××××××××××.de>
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 21:57:07
Message-Id: 20080901215703.GA24279@marvin.heimnetz.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -1 `eix -Iu --only-names` & removing old version of Python by Neil Bothwick
1 * Neil Bothwick (neil@××××××××××.uk) [01.09.08 23:14]:
2 > On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 11:49:36 +0100, Mick wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 > > It tells me to remove dev-python/pycrypto, when portage seems to depend
6 > > on it:
7 > >
8 > > # equery depends dev-python/pycrypto
9 > > [ Searching for packages depending on dev-python/pycrypto... ]
10 > > sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 (!build? >=dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r6)
11 >
12 > equery is borked. pycrypto is a conditional dependency of portage, but
13 > equery depends takes no accounts of that, emerge --depclean does.
14 >
15
16 But it is a *negativ* condition: portage is not depending on pycrypto if
17 and only if the build useflag is specified, which noone should specify.
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19 So --depclean should not consider it to be removed.
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21 Sebastian
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23 --
24 " Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. " Karl Marx
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26 SEB@STI@N GÜNTHER mailto:samson@××××××××××××××××.de

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