[gentoo-dev] Portage quibbles

[Dhruba Bandopadhyay <dhruba@codewordt.co.uk>]

Hello,

I would like to raise the following quibbles with portage.  When I say
world file below I am referring to /var/cache/edb/world.

(1) Certain packages remain in world file even when uninstalled.
(2) Certain packages are installed but not added to world file.

E.g. If I install evolution and that installs mozilla as a dependency
then mozilla is not put in world file.

(3) Sometimes pinning an item in world file like '>=net-www/mozilla-1.3'
does not stop an 'emerge -up -deep world' from downgrading it because
another package like evolution wants an older version.

(4) Injecting stubs for packages although prevents downgrading can get
messy if you find yourself injecting a lot of them and it can be hard to
keep track of.  Is there a way to list all stubs?

(5) Also, how do you remove a stub?  Is it by 'emerge -C'
<category>/<package>-<version>-<release>?

Since I'm using some unstable and rest stable packages the issue of
downgrading is making life troublesome for me.  It'd be interesting to
hear how the rest of you deal with them.  I don't wish to run on the
unstable tree but just wish to install some of the unstable packages. 
Incidentally, if I use the -U (upgrade only) flag I get the following
error.

----
Calculating world dependencies \
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9.1" have
been masked.
!!!    (dependency required by "media-sound/alsa-utils-0.9.1" [ebuild])

!!! Problem with ebuild media-sound/alsa-utils-0.9.1
!!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem.

!!! Depgraph creation failed.
----

My emerge info is given below.

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Dhruba Bandopadhyay






Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.linux.no/
http://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/
http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ "
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg libg++ libwww
mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2
xmms xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang readline arts bonobo svga java
guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt
kde motif opengl aalib acpi alsa cdr directfb dvd esd fbcon gtk2 imap
mozilla moznoirc moznomail moznocompose moznoxft mozsvg nas sse tcltk
tiff usb xml"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
-fprefetch-loop-arrays -falign-functions=4 -funroll-loops -ffast-math
-fforce-addr"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
-fprefetch-loop-arrays -falign-functions=4 -funroll-loops -ffast-math
-fforce-addr"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"


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