[gentoo-dev] Reverse Dependencies

[gentoo-dev] Reverse Dependencies

[Bastian Fuchs]

Hello!
Are there plans to add reverse dependencies in Portage, for example that 
emerge warns you, if you want to uninstall X, but KDE needs X.

Thx for answer,
Bastian

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse Dependencies

[Brandon Low]

Yes, portage2 will definitely have this support.

On Thu, 07/18/02 at 17:40:02 +0200, Bastian Fuchs wrote:
> Hello!
> Are there plans to add reverse dependencies in Portage, for example that 
> emerge warns you, if you want to uninstall X, but KDE needs X.
> 
> Thx for answer,
> Bastian
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse Dependencies

[Hannes Mehnert]

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Hi,

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 11:28:21AM -0500, Brandon Low wrote:
> Yes, portage2 will definitely have this support.

is there any schedule for portage2?
is there a feature list which features will be in portage2?

Hannes Mehnert

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse Dependencies

[Jean-Michel Smith]

On Thursday 18 July 2002 10:40 am, Bastian Fuchs wrote:
> Hello!
> Are there plans to add reverse dependencies in Portage, for example that
> emerge warns you, if you want to uninstall X, but KDE needs X.

The depends script, and 'qpkg -q' (gentoolkit) both give you this, at least in 
as far as you can audit the reverse dependencies of the package you are about 
to remove or 'clean'.

I find both useful; they present similar information, but in a different 
format.  qpkg -q is great for tracing out the reverse depends of a particular 
package, while depends is great for getting an overall picture of what 
packages are missing their dependencies, if any.

Jean.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse Dependencies

[Brandon Low]

Just so yas know the depend script can be found at 
http://gentoo.lostlogicx.com/depend Ssrit on IRC and myself wrote the 
script, hopefully I'll get it into gentoolkit next week early.  Let me 
know about any bugs in qpkg -q or depend so I can fix them, thanks!

--Brandon

On Thu, 07/18/02 at 13:39:47 -0500, Jean-Michel Smith wrote:
> On Thursday 18 July 2002 10:40 am, Bastian Fuchs wrote:
> > Hello!
> > Are there plans to add reverse dependencies in Portage, for example that
> > emerge warns you, if you want to uninstall X, but KDE needs X.
> 
> The depends script, and 'qpkg -q' (gentoolkit) both give you this, at least in 
> as far as you can audit the reverse dependencies of the package you are about 
> to remove or 'clean'.
> 
> I find both useful; they present similar information, but in a different 
> format.  qpkg -q is great for tracing out the reverse depends of a particular 
> package, while depends is great for getting an overall picture of what 
> packages are missing their dependencies, if any.
> 
> Jean.
> _______________________________________________
> gentoo-dev mailing list
> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
> http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse Dependencies

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> Hello!
> Are there plans to add reverse dependencies in Portage, for example
> that emerge warns you, if you want to uninstall X, but KDE needs X.
> 


It was in for a short while around 2.0.5 but was removed due to other
issues with it, but yes, its a planned feature.

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[gentoo-dev] Re: Reverse Dependencies

[Mecho Puh]

> Are there plans to add reverse dependencies in Portage, for example that 
> emerge warns you, if you want to uninstall X, but KDE needs X.


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