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From: Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] odd dependencies
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 15:34:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040515153435.19bf583a@sven.genone.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40A5A252.9030101@skylineaero.com>

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On 05/14/04  Andrew Gaffney wrote:

> In my digging for how Portage really works, I've come across yet
> another oddity. In 'emerge -ep xfree', I get:
> 
> [ebuild  N    ] sys-devel/bc-1.06-r5
> 
> but 'qpkg -q -nc -I bc' shows:
> 
> sys-libs/glibc-2.3.3_pre20040420
> DEPENDED ON BY:
>          elfutils-0.94-r1
>          prelink-20040317
> sys-devel/bc-1.06-r5             <---------
> DEPENDED ON BY:                  <---------
>          SYSTEM PROFILE           <---------
> dev-libs/libcroco-0.5.1
> DEPENDED ON BY:
>          librsvg-2.6.4
> dev-libs/libcdio-0.66
> DEPENDED ON BY:
>          vcdimager-0.7.20
> 
> If bc is only in the system profile and not depended on by anything
> else, why is it getting dragged in by xfree?

Because portage checks the system profile everytime, not just for
`emerge system`.

Marius

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-15 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-15  4:53 [gentoo-dev] odd dependencies Andrew Gaffney
2004-05-15 13:34 ` Marius Mauch [this message]
2004-05-15 15:43   ` Andrew Gaffney
2004-05-15 16:50     ` Jason Stubbs
2004-05-15 17:00       ` Andrew Gaffney
2004-05-16  1:32         ` [gentoo-dev] python/perl rewrite of qpkg Andrew Ross
2004-05-17  9:24         ` [gentoo-dev] odd dependencies Karl Trygve Kalleberg

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