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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GOwn8-0002yk-Ks for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:34:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8HDXFNY007792; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:33:15 GMT Received: from pfepc.post.tele.dk (pfepc.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.237]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8HDNVko000427 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:23:31 GMT Received: from BA (0x503eab75.hrnxx2.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.171.117]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id ABF548A0050 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:23:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: by BA (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:23:30 +0200 From: Bo =?iso-8859-1?q?=D8rsted_Andresen?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Stray dependency on virtual/x11-7.0-r2 Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:23:21 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <9acccfe50609162318k3563171fib797ef39fc195998@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9acccfe50609162318k3563171fib797ef39fc195998@mail.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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1537200.hFXkTGSp4V"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200609171523.22045.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> X-Archives-Salt: 1da2a1b1-fcf7-493a-a71d-78abaac0b694 X-Archives-Hash: beb9aa3956ca25ff7bc4c9aa916ec070 --nextPart1537200.hFXkTGSp4V Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 17 September 2006 08:18, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I just switched to modular X, and got to the point where the system > comes up okay. > I have a few remaining puzzles and problems. Here's one: > > When I do emerge -aDvu world, it wants to emerge > [ebuild N ] virtual/x11-7.0-r2 USE=3D"dri" 0 kB I have to say that I am a bit curious as to which package would require you= to=20 install virtual/x11. Please add --tree to `emerge -aDvu world` and show wha= t=20 pulls this in. virtual/x11 is a virtual package which means it depends on a number of othe= r=20 packages but provides nothing other than it's dependencies... > The migration guide says this can happen when there's an outdated package. Sounds about right... > But equery says there are well over 100 such packages that depend on > virtual/x11. As has been said before on this list equery is broken and unreliable. Last = I=20 checked it had 44 open bugs against it. When a 100 packages show up for=20 `equery depends virtual/x11` it means that 100 packages have a dependency=20 that could be satisfied by virtual/x11. That's quite different from 100=20 packages depend on virtual/x11. In most if not all of those cases one or=20 several other packages would be able to satisfy the same dependency hence=20 virtual/x11 isn't actually required at all (at least on my system it isn't): $ eix -e x11 * virtual/x11 Available versions: 6.8 7.0-r2 Installed: none Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ Description: Virtual for the core X11 implementation $ equery depends virtual/x11 | wc -l 387 $ emerge -uvpD world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! Total size of downloads: 0 kB > And they're all up to date. I've been running stable so far,=20 > with very few exceptions. Am I really to go unstable with all of these? Nope. > This seems extreme in view of the fact that a great many of them are KDE > things, but KDE seems to be working just fine. Of course. [SNIP] Can I get away with just waiting for a while? Sure. =2D-=20 Bo Andresen --nextPart1537200.hFXkTGSp4V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFDUxK8/kKEzmwNNoRAvAAAKCdWsR4N9eSb7Yu4AgZ8V0GnPVKOACffvXv zBhCqpcMOVIaWsfH8TlufSk= =BRVb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1537200.hFXkTGSp4V-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list