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On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 14:25 +0200, Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: |
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> But now, qpkg does not exist anymore, and I've read it was replaced by |
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> equery. |
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See other messages for how to get qpkg back. |
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> However, there are two problems with equery: |
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> 1. it disregards the use flags. equery depends <package> displays all |
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> packages that may depend on a package, not the ones that really do on my |
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> system. |
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> I remember seeing something in bugzilla about this issue, but is was |
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> marked as fixed, but I could not figure out in which version (I have the |
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> latest gentoolkit). |
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Can you give me an example? I'm not sure that I understand the issue. |
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> 2. it disregards the virtual packages. According to equery, I cas safely |
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> remove xorg-x11 (!), because no one depends on it! But if I do so, all |
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> packages depending on the virtual x11 package would be broken. |
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> So, considering this, can someone point out how can I safely remove a |
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> package? |
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That is because the packages don't depend on xorg-x11, they depend on |
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anything the provides the functionality of X. An equery depends |
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virtual/x11 will show all of the packages that are dependent upon X. |
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I have noted this as a potential enhancement to have equery look at the |
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provides information and display the dependencies of the provided |
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virtual. |
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Regards, |
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Paul |
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