[gentoo-dev] dev-libs/glib

[gentoo-dev] dev-libs/glib

[William Hubbs]

Hi all,

I'm not sure whether this goes to gentoo-dev or gentoo-users, so I appologise in advance for the cross-post.

The problem I am having is this:

I am trying to remove the dev-libs/glib package from my system.
It is not in the world file, and it isn't in /etc/make.profile anywhere.
However, emerge -uD world insists on installing it.

I have attempted to find the package that depends on it, but I get the following results:

dep-clean -Cv
Retrieving currently merged packages.
128 currently merged packages.

Retrieving system packages.
89 packages contained in system.

Preparing world file.

Preparing list of installed world packages.

8586	ebuilds available.
42	packages contained in final world file.

List prepared, checking dependencies with emerge -eup
130 packages contained in final image.

These packages have no other packages depending on them.
Total of 0 unneeded packages.

These packages are depended upon but are not present on the system.
dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5
dev-libs/glib-2.2.1
Total of 2 needed packages.

These packages are installed but not in the portage tree.
Total of 0 removed packages.

Then, here is what qpkg tells me about the package:

qpkg -nc -q -i dev-libs/glib
dev-libs/glib-2.0.4-r1
DEPENDED ON BY:
dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5
DEPENDED ON BY:
dev-libs/glib-2.0.6-r1
DEPENDED ON BY:
dev-libs/glib-2.0.7
DEPENDED ON BY:
dev-libs/glib-2.2.0
DEPENDED ON BY:
dev-libs/glib-2.2.1
DEPENDED ON BY:

Here are my use flags:
USE="-cups -gif -gnome -gpm -gtk -imlib -kde maildir -jpeg -nls -png -qt -svga -X -xv -xmms -truetype -tcpd"

What is going on here?  Can someone tell me why my system thinks this packag is needed?

Thanks,

William


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Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-libs/glib

[Canek Peláez Valdés]

[...]

William> I am trying to remove the dev-libs/glib package from my system.  It
William> is not in the world file, and it isn't in /etc/make.profile
William> anywhere.  However, emerge -uD world insists on installing it.

Gtk+ depends on glib; if you're using Gnome or another Gtk+ based
application, you need it. A lot of things depends on glib; and it's
relatively small, so I don't see the need for removal...

Canek
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Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-libs/glib

[Thomas de Grenier de Latour]

On Tue, 13 May 2003 17:42:58 -0500
William Hubbs <kc5eiv@kc5eiv.homeip.net> wrote:

> 
> Here are my use flags:
> USE="-cups -gif -gnome -gpm -gtk -imlib -kde maildir -jpeg -nls -png
> -qt -svga -X -xv -xmms -truetype -tcpd"
> 

Glib is at least needed by "sys-libs/pam" (because of the "pam_console"
module). Hence, you do need glib (which is however a good C library,
even for non-gtk code).

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Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-libs/glib

[Spider]

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On Tue, 13 May 2003 17:42:58 -0500
William Hubbs <kc5eiv@kc5eiv.homeip.net> wrote:

> What is going on here?  Can someone tell me why my system thinks this
> packag is needed?

try  this
cd /var/db/pkg
find . -iname \*.ebuild | while read F ;
   do grep "dev-libs/glib" -q ${F} && echo ${F};
done

and see if it responds something?


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Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-libs/glib

[William Hubbs]

Hi,

I used the commands you gave me and got this response:

./sys-libs/pam-0.75-r11/pam-0.75-r11.ebuild
./dev-libs/glib-2.2.1/glib-2.2.1.ebuild
./net-irc/irssi-0.8.6-r2/irssi-0.8.6-r2.ebuild

That explains why I need the package, thanks a lot. :-)

William


On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 02:19:14AM +0200, Spider wrote:
> begin  quote
> On Tue, 13 May 2003 17:42:58 -0500
> William Hubbs <kc5eiv@kc5eiv.homeip.net> wrote:
> 
> > What is going on here?  Can someone tell me why my system thinks this
> > packag is needed?
> 
> try  this
> cd /var/db/pkg
> find . -iname \*.ebuild | while read F ;
>    do grep "dev-libs/glib" -q ${F} && echo ${F};
> done
> 
> and see if it responds something?
> 
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