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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:46:34
Message-Id: 200803022041.38716.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion by maxim wexler
1 On Sunday 02 March 2008, maxim wexler wrote:
2 > > You can probably get rid of python-2.3 safely, but
3 > > first find out what
4 > > is using it:
5 > >
6 > > equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r3
7 > >
8 > > If nothing, then unmerge it, but first you might
9 > > want to make a backup
10 > > (just in case):
11 >
12 > heathen@localhost ~ $ equery depends
13 > =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r3
14 > [ Searching for packages depending on
15 > =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r3... ]
16 > Traceback (most recent call last):
17 > File "/usr/bin/equery", line 1732, in ?
18 > cmd.perform(local_opts)
19 > File "/usr/bin/equery", line 1117, in perform
20 > deps = pkg.get_runtime_deps() +
21 > pkg.get_compiletime_deps() + pkg.get_postmerge_deps()
22 > AttributeError: Package instance has no attribute
23 > 'get_postmerge_deps'
24 >
25 > Not exactly "nothing". Is this what you mean?
26
27 No, that's an error. I've seen it somewhere before, but can't recall
28 where. Can't recall what to do about it either.
29
30 If no-one else offers an opinion, I'd start by checking that all your
31 portage tools still work properly: emerge, revdep-rebuild, the various
32 tools in gentoolkit and portage-utils
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