Re: [gentoo-dev] Strange update world output

[Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte <kioshen@gmail.com>]

On 5/16/05, Paul Waring <pwaring@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/16/05, Kevin F. Quinn <ml@kevquinn.com> wrote:
> > Try "emerge -puDvt world", which will give you the list in an indented tree format useful for determining what pulled in the packages you don't want.
> 
> I think I've found out what the problem was by looking through all
> those, although the dependancy tree isn't all that easy to follow
> (it's pretty hard to tell how far something is indented when they're
> 10+ lines apart). Looks like lib-compat had +sdl set (I presume this
> is set by default because I've never enabled it) which seemed to be
> bringing all sorts of rubbish along with it. Adding -sdl and -arts to
> make.conf got rid of everything bar postgresql and lib-compat (which
> is what I wanted), although I've no idea why all these extra packages
> appeared in the first place.
>
For the record, you can put -* in your make.conf. That will disable
all of the use flags and you will have to specify only the one you
need. That way, this will never happen again. Just make sure you know
what you're doing ...

Also, since no one mentioned it yet, this is a strickly gentoo
developpement oriented mailing list. The Gentoo-User ML exist for
these sort of questions :).

Regards,

JF

> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Paul
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