From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ms0xc-00022B-VR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:07:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 619C9E0741; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:07:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.askja.de (mail.askja.de [83.137.103.136]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35446E0741 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:07:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from static-87-79-89-40.netcologne.de ([87.79.89.40] helo=zone.wonkology.org) by mail.askja.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ms0xa-0004WE-3Y for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:07:10 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by zone.wonkology.org with local; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:07:06 +0200 id 00011B6F.4ABFD3FA.000043BC From: Alex Schuster 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.28-tuxonice-r3_3; KDE/4.2.4; i686; ; ) References: <4ABD68BD.7070806@wht.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4ABD68BD.7070806@wht.com.au> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.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: <200909272307.05877.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: b69863ce-ad00-453d-b670-5561311f6456 X-Archives-Hash: de79978d92623449a1f15b84ac29f7b2 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