Re: [gentoo-dev] where does world update find gnome dependencies with no gnome installed in my gentoo?

[mikepolniak <mikpolniak@adelphia.net>]

On 19 Jan 2002 08:44:36 -0700
Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 10:16, mikepolniak wrote:
> > With my USE=<no gnome> while building gentoo i do not have any gnome installed.
> > I also made sure to not emerge anything with gnome -dependencies.
> > 
> > Today an  emerge --pretend --world update now wants to add  gnome-base/ORBit 
> > and gnome-libs:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > [ebuild   U] x11-wm/fluxbox-0.1.6 to /
> > [ebuild N  ] gnome-base/ORBit-0.5.12-r1 to /               <----where does it find this
> > [ebuild N  ] media-libs/audiofile-0.2.2 to /
> > [ebuild N  ] media-sound/esound-0.2.23 to /
> > [ebuild N  ] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.1.2-r3 to /     <----where does it find this
> 
> I'm guessing that you *do* have a /var/db/pkg/gnome-base/gnome-libs*
> entry, possibly an old one.  Look and see.  You can also do a:
> 
> cd /var/db/pkg
> grep -r gnome-base/gnome-libs * 
> 
> ...to see what packaage caused it to be installed.

Well grep  -r gnome-base/gnome-libs  * shows nothing in /var/db/pkg. 

If i grep -r gnome/base * then  xmms and xchat show:
RDEPEND:gnome? ( >=gnome-base/gnome-core-1.4.0.4-r1 )
ebuild: gnome?  ( >=gnome-base/gnome-core-1.4.0.4-r1 

but if gnome is not present in USE= ... then i assume gnome should
not be a dependency.

Which is the case if i emerge all the ebuilds in the list individually,
because then  there are _no_ gnome dependencies.

However, when building gqview which has a dependency on gdk-pixbuf 
 i did remove a Depend  >=gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.1.2-r1 from
the ebuild of gdk-pixbuf so that i could have gqview without gnome
(neither gqview or gdk-pixbuf needs gnome)

So then in my /var/db/pkg/media-libs/gdk-pixbuf i have:
 DEPEND=">=x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r4
        >=gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.1.2-r1"  <-----i removed this

And my /var/db/pkg/media-gfx/gqview has the unchanged
DEPEND="virtual/glibc
	media-libs/libpng
	>=media-libs/gdk-pixbuf-0.11.0-r1
	>=x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r4
	nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )"

But again this means that a gnome depends is _not_  in  my /var/db/pkg 
although it is in my original /usr/portage/media-libs/gdk-pixbuf. 

Could this be causing  --world update to find a gnome depends?