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 1Qzq9w-0005w5-BF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2011 13:21:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 258F421C115; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 13:21:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (unknown [77.75.108.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B17E621C068 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 13:20:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEEF1DEF53 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 14:20:06 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id e8E9WtTLvITt for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 14:25:50 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A563ADEF51 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 14:20:06 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2 Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 14:20:05 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-gentoo-r3; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: 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 Message-Id: <201109031420.05672.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8435aa53469e6bb179f3405e22c716f5 On Saturday 03 September 2011 11:55:06 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > You can trust it because portage *is* the package manager, and the > package manager always knows what the dependencies of packages are. > Tools like equery can do analysis and stuff, but the final decision of > what gets installed and what's needed is up to Portage. So if you can't > trust the package manager, you're screwed anyway :-) Well I did trust it yesterday when it decided it ought to remove MySQL. What the hell, I thought: I can put it back easily enough. So today when I started KMail it wouldn't. I had not only to remerge MySQL but to add mysql USE flag to qt-sql in package.use and remerge qt-sql as well. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23