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Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 20:54:48 +0100
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Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-libs/db & dev-lang/php dependency problem...
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On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:47:41AM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:

> I just posted a message ("emerge --depclean does not remove due to link 
> level dependencies") due to similar issues. My guess is that php links to 
> some sys-libs/db library, even if db is not a dependency to php. 

To be correct, if php links to db, db _IS_ a dependency of php. If
portage is not aware of this dependency, the _ebuild_ is wrong and miss
a declaration for this dependency.

-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht