[gentoo-user] [nomerge] ?

[gentoo-user] [nomerge] ?

[Meino Christian Cramer]

Hi,

 when doing a
  
   eix-sync && emerge --pretend --tree --verbose --update --deep world
 
 I got often an output like this one:

   [nomerge      ] perl-core/Test-Harness-2.56

 I looked in the manual pages of emerge and ebuild but found no
 explanaition for the "[nomerge]" tag.

 What does it mean? "For heavens sake! -- DONT install THAT!" ??? :O) ;)

 Keep hacking!
 mcc

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Re: [gentoo-user] [nomerge] ?

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Saturday 30 September 2006 03:41, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
>  when doing a
>
>    eix-sync && emerge --pretend --tree --verbose --update --deep world
>
>  I got often an output like this one:
>
>    [nomerge      ] perl-core/Test-Harness-2.56
>
>  I looked in the manual pages of emerge and ebuild but found no
>  explanaition for the "[nomerge]" tag.
>
>  What does it mean? "For heavens sake! -- DONT install THAT!" ??? :O) ;)

It means it's already installed and whatever follows it is being pulled in by 
it... (or it is in the PDEPEND/postdepend of what follows it). This 
particular package is actually in PDEPEND of dev-lang/perl. It should be 
followed by at least one line that says [merge] and due to --tree this shows 
what pulls that in.

I do realize that the output when adding --tree to emerge isn't particular 
well documented (or easy to document) so interpreting it does require a bit 
of guessing (or looking at the ebuilds)...

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Bo Andresen

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Re: [gentoo-user] [nomerge] ?

[Ryan Tandy]

Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> [...]

When using --tree, [nomerge] denotes packages that are depended on by 
the one you want to install, but are already installed, so they won't be 
merged again.  They're there simply to show a more complete dep tree.
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