[gentoo-user] emerge --depclean question

[gentoo-user] emerge --depclean question

[Alex Schuster]

Hi there!

Any idea why emerge --depclean wants to remove 
app-shells/bash-completion-config? It it needed by some installed packages:

wonko@knork ~ --> equery depends app-shells/bash-completion-config
[ Searching for packages depending on app-shells/bash-completion-config... ]
app-editors/vim-7.0.235 (bash-completion? app-shells/bash-completion-config)
app-editors/vim-core-7.0.235 (bash-completion? app-shells/bash-completion-config)
app-misc/figlet-222 (bash-completion? app-shells/bash-completion-config)
app-portage/genlop-0.30.7 (bash-completion? app-shells/bash-completion-config)
app-portage/udept-0.5.99.0.2.95-r1 (bash-completion? app-shells/bash-completion-config)
dev-util/subversion-1.3.2-r4 (bash-completion? app-shells/bash-completion-config)

I have the bash-completion USE flag set, so why does emerge --depclean
want to remove this package? I also tried dep -a -d
(from app-portage/udept), it also wants to remove it.

My system is up to date, I did emerge -NuD world and revdep-rebuild.

This is no big problem of course, I am just curious and would like to
understand what is going on.

	Alex

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean question

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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On 7/20/07, Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:
>
> Hi there!
>
> Any idea why emerge --depclean wants to remove
> app-shells/bash-completion-config? It it needed by some installed
> packages:
>
> wonko@knork ~ --> equery depends app-shells/bash-completion-config
> [ Searching for packages depending on app-shells/bash-completion-config...
> ]
> app-editors/vim-7.0.235 (bash-completion?
> app-shells/bash-completion-config)
> app-editors/vim-core-7.0.235 (bash-completion?
> app-shells/bash-completion-config)
> app-misc/figlet-222 (bash-completion? app-shells/bash-completion-config)
> app-portage/genlop-0.30.7 (bash-completion?
> app-shells/bash-completion-config)
> app-portage/udept-0.5.99.0.2.95-r1 (bash-completion?
> app-shells/bash-completion-config)
> dev-util/subversion-1.3.2-r4 (bash-completion?
> app-shells/bash-completion-config)
>
> I have the bash-completion USE flag set, so why does emerge --depclean
> want to remove this package? I also tried dep -a -d
> (from app-portage/udept), it also wants to remove it.
>
> My system is up to date, I did emerge -NuD world and revdep-rebuild.
>
> This is no big problem of course, I am just curious and would like to
> understand what is going on.



I don't know any of the details, but I can report this: my system is also
clean,
has the bash-completion USE flag, and does _not_ have the bash-completion
package installed.  Everything seems to work just fine.

Moreover, I use the "bash themes" from Linux Journal of a year or so ago,
which relies heavily on the "complete" builtin.

So you have to ask yourself what capability are you missing that you want?


++ kevin

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean question

[Zac Medico]

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Alex Schuster wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> Any idea why emerge --depclean wants to remove 
> app-shells/bash-completion-config? It it needed by some installed packages:
> 
> wonko@knork ~ --> equery depends app-shells/bash-completion-config
> [ Searching for packages depending on app-shells/bash-completion-config... ]
> app-editors/vim-7.0.235 (bash-completion? app-shells/bash-completion-config)
> app-editors/vim-core-7.0.235 (bash-completion? app-shells/bash-completion-config)
> app-misc/figlet-222 (bash-completion? app-shells/bash-completion-config)
> app-portage/genlop-0.30.7 (bash-completion? app-shells/bash-completion-config)
> app-portage/udept-0.5.99.0.2.95-r1 (bash-completion? app-shells/bash-completion-config)
> dev-util/subversion-1.3.2-r4 (bash-completion? app-shells/bash-completion-config)
> 
> I have the bash-completion USE flag set, so why does emerge --depclean
> want to remove this package? I also tried dep -a -d
> (from app-portage/udept), it also wants to remove it.

Apparently you didn't have the bash-completion enabled on those
packages when you installed them.  Look at the output of `emerge -pv
app-editors/vim` and you will be able to see if reinstalling the
package causes the flag to change state.  The symbols in the USE
flag display are documented with the --verbose option in `man emerge`.

Zac
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