Re: [gentoo-dev] odd dependencies

[Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@skylineaero.com>]

Jason Stubbs wrote:
> 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

Wasn't there supposed to be a Python/Perl rewrite of qpkg?

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