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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why emerge -uD forces mailx!? (long)
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 03:26:44
Message-Id: 7573e9640607182015l53ff3c12h216fdceba07ea477@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Why emerge -uD forces mailx!? (long) by dnlt0hn5ntzhbqkv51
1 On 7/18/06, dnlt0hn5ntzhbqkv51 <dnlt0hn5ntzhbqkv51@×××××××××.net> wrote:
2 > For some reason, emerge -auD world produces this:
3 >
4 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
5 >
6 > Calculating world dependencies... done!
7 > [ebuild N ] mail-client/mailx-support-20030215
8 > [ebuild N ] net-libs/liblockfile-1.06
9 > [ebuild N ] mail-client/mailx-8.1.2.20040524-r1
10 >
11 > Why do I want these -new- packages? So I do an equery depends on each of
12 > them and there is no dependency. e.g.
13
14 Add --tree to see what wants to pull these in. FYI, there is a lot of
15 stuff in the tree that depends on virtual/mailx, and "equery depends"
16 is broken in many cases...
17
18 -Richard
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