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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