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From: Sergey Kobzar <tod.zullu@×××××.com>
To: Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.edu>
Cc: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:54:11
Message-Id: 1387382108.20080213225329@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge? by Willie Wong
1 Hi Willie,
2
3 Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 10:36:01 PM, you wrote:
4
5 > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:25:23PM +0200, Sergey Kobzar wrote:
6 >> # cat /etc/make.conf | grep USE
7 >> USE="-X -acl -gpm -ipv6 -tcpd"
8 >>
9 >> # equery depends attr
10 >> [ Searching for packages depending on attr... ]
11 >> sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1 (xattr? sys-apps/attr)
12 >>
13 >> # equery depends pwdb
14 >> [ Searching for packages depending on pwdb... ]
15 >> sys-libs/pam-0.99.9.0 (sys-libs/pwdb)
16 >>
17 >> # equery depends hashalot
18 >> [ Searching for packages depending on hashalot... ]
19 >> #
20 >>
21 >> Looks like I can remove hashalot safely only.
22 >>
23 >> attr and pwdb must be added to world class.
24 >> correct?
25
26 > Not so fast. Check to see if you do have the xattr flag enabled.
27
28 In the kernel config probably?
29
30 # cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -i XATTR
31 # CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR is not set
32 # CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR is not set
33 # CONFIG_CIFS_XATTR is not set
34
35
36 > The entry for attr is a conditional dependency: you don't need it if
37 > you don't have the xattr flag. (Equery is, at present, not smart
38 > enough to decipher dependency from USE.)
39
40 # emerge --info | grep -i attr
41 #
42
43
44 > Also, I'd thought that emerge --depclean has matured enough so that
45 > you don't get weird stuff like depclean telling you pwdb is save to
46 > remove, while equery tells you there's a hard dependency.
47
48 Hm... probably you are right...
49 But it happened after I synced portage tree this morning.
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53 > W
54 > --
55 > Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu
56 > 408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton
57 > A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.
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61 --
62 Sergey
63
64 --
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Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge? Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.edu>