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From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] odd dependencies
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 01:50:01 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200405160150.08158.jstubbs@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40A63AAC.4060808@skylineaero.com>

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On Sunday 16 May 2004 00:43, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Marius Mauch wrote:
> > 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`.
>
> Then why doesn't the *entire* system profile get included?

Something wrong with qpkg it seems... it probably doesn't check further if 
it's a system package.

bc < openssl < perl < xfree

Regards,
Jason Stubbs
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-15 16:51 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
2004-05-15 15:43   ` Andrew Gaffney
2004-05-15 16:50     ` Jason Stubbs [this message]
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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