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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What causes a package to be brought in during a big emerge?
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:07:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200909272307.05877.wonko@wonkology.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ABD68BD.7070806@wht.com.au>

Andrew Lowe writes:

> 	So after that rambling intro, is there a package/utility that will tell
> me, when in this situation, what package needs
> "oldPackageNoLongerNeeded" and why it is being brought into my emerge.

Try these:

- add -t to your emerge -pNuD world command
- emerge --depcean -pv oldPackageNoLongerNeeded
- grep oldPackageNoLongerNeeded /var/lib/portage/world

	Wonko



      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-27 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-26  1:05 [gentoo-user] What causes a package to be brought in during a big emerge? Andrew Lowe
2009-09-26  1:08 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-09-26  2:08   ` Andrew Lowe
2009-09-26  2:36 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-09-26  8:32   ` Neil Bothwick
2009-09-26 13:22     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-09-26 20:55       ` Neil Bothwick
2009-09-26 21:01         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-09-26 21:34           ` Dale
2009-09-26 13:35   ` beolach
2009-09-26  2:52 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2009-09-27 21:07 ` Alex Schuster [this message]

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