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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage insists in pulling in sys-apps/kmod
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:06:24
Message-Id: CAJ0EP40NKMtsOruQy5mHy_crRYQppa1bobQpBbeB+yp61J_oFw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] portage insists in pulling in sys-apps/kmod by Dan Johansson
1 On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Dan Johansson <Dan.Johansson@×××.nu> wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > Some of my servers are running with a kernel without module-support.
5 > On these servers something has started to pull in sys-apps/kmod, which when compiled complains about missing modules-support in the kernel (as it should).
6 > Doing an "equery d sys-apps/kmod" I can see that the following two packages depends on sy-apps/kmod:
7 > sys-fs/udev-197-r8 (kmod ? >=sys-apps/kmod-12)
8 > virtual/modutils-0 (sys-apps/kmod[tools])
9 >
10 > sys-fs/udev has "-kmod" in its USE-flags, so that should not be an issue).
11 > # emerge --verbose --pretend sys-fs/udev
12 > [ebuild R ] sys-fs/udev-197-r8 USE="acl openrc -doc -gudev -hwdb -introspection -keymap -kmod (-selinux) -static-libs" 0 kB
13 >
14 > With virtual/modutils its an other thing, here we have a circular dependency between virtual/modutils and sys-apps/kmod if the tools USE-flag is set.
15
16 That circular dep is interesting; sys-apps/kmod only depends on
17 virtual/modutils because it inherits linux-mod.eclass.
18
19 Could you file about about the circular dependency please?

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] portage insists in pulling in sys-apps/kmod Felix Kuperjans <felix@××××××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] portage insists in pulling in sys-apps/kmod Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] portage insists in pulling in sys-apps/kmod Dan Johansson <Dan.Johansson@×××.nu>