From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FHWep-0008TA-S4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:43:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2A1f3ju000368; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:41:03 GMT Received: from ender.volumehost.net (adsl-69-154-123-202.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2A1VOsl002043 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:31:24 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F48CFDC3 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:31:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ender.volumehost.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ender.volumehost.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21492-08-3 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:31:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip70-178-174-179.ks.ks.cox.net (ip70-178-174-179.ks.ks.cox.net [70.178.174.179]) (using SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D54FFDAF for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:31:23 +0000 (UTC) From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:31:18 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200603090049.21857.bss03@volumehost.net> <200603091028.32877.bo.andresen@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200603091028.32877.bo.andresen@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603091931.18735.bss03@volumehost.net> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at volumehost.net X-Archives-Salt: 4e04da94-a524-4e5a-94b4-57382f2769a4 X-Archives-Hash: dc7ac3b75fd7248a69c2b1465664a57b On Thursday 09 March 2006 03:28, Bo Andresen wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)': > On Thursday 09 March 2006 07:49, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > emerge -pvt is giving confusing results; > > basically saying that virtual-x11 is coming in because of packages > > which don't even have an optional dependency on X. :( I tried using > > equery g, but that actually says the packages I'm trying to bring in > > /won't/ need virtual/x11-6.8. > > AFAICT equery detects compile time dependencies (DEPEND) and run time > depencies (RDEPEND) but not post dependencies (PDEPEND). So I think you > need to look for PDEPEND in the ebuilds manually. This, I did not know. I will look into it. -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list