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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] --depclean and PyQt4 blocking
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:12:29
Message-Id: 49AA431C.4050209@gmail.com
1 Hi,
2
3 I did my weekly updates last night and as always I run --depclean -p
4 afterwards to see if anything needs cleaning out. I seem to have ran
5 into something that doesn't make sense. This is what I get:
6
7 > root@smoker / # emerge -p --depclean
8 >
9 > * Always study the list of packages to be cleaned for any obvious
10 > * mistakes. Packages that are part of the world set will always
11 > * be kept. They can be manually added to this set with
12 > * `emerge --noreplace <atom>`. Packages that are listed in
13 > * package.provided (see portage(5)) will be removed by
14 > * depclean, even if they are part of the world set.
15 > *
16 > * As a safety measure, depclean will not remove any packages
17 > * unless *all* required dependencies have been resolved. As a
18 > * consequence, it is often necessary to run `emerge --update
19 > * --newuse --deep @system @world` prior to depclean.
20 >
21 > Calculating dependencies... done!
22 > >>> Checking for lib consumers...
23 > >>> Assigning files to packages...
24 > * In order to avoid breakage of link level dependencies, one or more
25 > * packages will not be removed. This can be solved by rebuilding the
26 > * packages that pulled them in.
27 > *
28 > * x11-libs/qt-assistant-4.4.2-r1 pulled in by:
29 > * dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.4-r1
30 > *
31 > * x11-libs/qt-xmlpatterns-4.4.2 pulled in by:
32 > * dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.4-r1
33 > *
34 > >>> Adding lib providers to graph...
35 > /
36 > Calculating dependencies... done!
37 > >>> No packages selected for removal by depclean
38 > >>> To see reverse dependencies, use --verbose
39 > root@smoker / #
40
41 I have ran emerge -1va =x11-libs/qt-assistant-4.4.2-r1
42 =x11-libs/qt-xmlpatterns-4.4.2 =dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.4-r1 so that it
43 will re-emerge all the packages it was fussing about. I get the same
44 thing. I also ran revdep-rebuild -i and it comes back clean. I then
45 did this, emerge -v1a =dev-python/qscintilla-python-2.3.2
46 =x11-libs/qscintilla-2.3.2 =dev-python/PyQt-3.17.6
47 =x11-libs/qt-gui-4.4.2-r1 =x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.4.2 and still get the same
48 thing.
49
50 Anybody ran into this? Anybody have a clue why it keeps giving this
51 message? Do I need to rebuild something else that I missed to clear
52 this up?
53
54 Dale
55
56 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and PyQt4 blocking Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>