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Dale wrote: |
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> The way to read that above is this. The package at the top, |
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> virtual/ssh, is pulling in pciutils, libudev and eudev. Note how it is |
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> indented. After that, sys-fs/udev-init-scripts is pulling in udev, |
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> eudev and on down the list. So, if you want to know what is pulling in |
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> shared-mime-info, it would be glib which is right above it. In this |
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> case, you can see mime as a USE flag. It may be that you can turn that |
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> off. You may can do it for just that one package or you may have to |
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> globally. Everyone has a different way to tackle that. Just pick |
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> whatever works for you. Personally, I try to go global when I can. On |
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> occasion tho, I do packages separately. Just keep in mind, sometimes |
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> you can have several packages pulling in another package. At times, it |
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> can get pretty deep. |
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> If you have colors turned on, watch those. The colors can sort of point |
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> out the problem sometimes too. |
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> And nomerge means it is already installed and there is no changes, it |
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> won't recompile it or anything. It is just showing you what is pulling |
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> in what. Also, if you are using -a and say yes, it runs that list |
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> backwards if I recall correctly. |
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> Maybe that will get you a little bit further. ;-) |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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I forgot to add this little tidbit. |
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root@fireball / # euse -i mime |
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global use flags (searching: mime) |
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************************************************************ |
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[- ] mime - Add MIME support |
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local use flags (searching: mime) |
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************************************************************ |
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[- ] mime |
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dev-libs/glib: Pull in shared MIME database that many glib-based |
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applications require at runtime to detect or open files. Warning: do |
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not disable this flag unless installing on a headless server. |
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(1) 1.2.10-r6 [gentoo] |
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[+ B] (2) 2.44.1-r1 [gentoo] |
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[+ B] (2) 2.46.2-r3 [gentoo] |
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[+ B] (2) 2.48.2 [gentoo] |
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[+ B] (2) 2.50.0 [gentoo] |
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[+ B] (2) 2.50.1 [gentoo] |
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[+ B] (2) 2.50.2 [gentoo] |
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root@fireball / # |
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So, unless you are running a headless server, you may want to give |
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disabling that a good thinking over. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |