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From: Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why unmerge acpid ?
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:38:52
Message-Id: 46E715E0.1030000@asyr.hopto.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] why unmerge acpid ? by "Jesús Guerrero"
1 on 09/12/2007 01:08 AM Jesús Guerrero wrote the following:
2 > <snip>
3 >
4 > That means that the package
5 >
6 > 1.- it is not in the world file (/var/lib/portage/world), _and_
7 > 2.- it is not a dependency of any package that is on the world file
8 >
9 > That could happen for many reasons. For example, if acpid was
10 > installed as a dependency of a given package, and that package
11 > has been uninstalled.
12 Maybe.
13 > If can also happen if you emerged it with
14 > -1 or --oneshot.
15 I don't think I did.
16 > It can also be just a case of corruption in the
17 > world file. It can happen.
18 Maybe it has never been in there.
19 >
20 > The solution is as easy as to emerge that package again, without
21 > --oneshot, so it will be added to the world file.
22 I think that is not the correct action for something that is normally
23 pulled in as a dependency, right?
24
25 # emerge -pve gnome > gnome
26 # grep -i acpi gnome
27 [ebuild R ] sys-apps/hal-0.5.9-r1 USE="acpi crypt disk-partition
28 -debug -dell -doc -pcmcia (-selinux)" 0 kB
29 [ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.18.0-r2 USE="acpi apm gnome
30 hal ipv6 -debug -doc -gstreamer" 0 kB
31 #
32
33 See the acpi dependency? Is that supposed to work without acpid?
34
35
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Re: [gentoo-user] why unmerge acpid ? "Jesús Guerrero" <i92guboj@×××××.es>
Re: [gentoo-user] why unmerge acpid ? Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za>