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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 20:48:56
Message-Id: 52546F54.3030700@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages by Helmut Jarausch
1 On 09/27/2013 09:24 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 > would anybody please be so kind to explain to me the rational used by
4 > portage to re-emerge
5 > some packages.
6 >
7 > I've installed portage 2.2.7 and when I try to emerge, say,
8 > app-shells/zsh-completions
9 > it re-emerges (emerge -vp shows 'rR') several packages including, i.e.,
10 > app-office/libreoffice
11 >
12 > I can't imaging libreoffice depends in any way on zsh-completions.
13 >
14 > So, what's going on?
15 >
16 > (and rebuilding libreoffice isn't just fun)
17 >
18 > Many thanks,
19 > Helmut.
20
21 Maybe https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486910 ?
22
23 --
24 Regards,
25 Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer
26 http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang