[gentoo-user] ~40 new perl-related ebuilds, why???

[gentoo-user] ~40 new perl-related ebuilds, why???

[Jarry]

Now this really scared me:

I just updated portage tree and checked if there are some updates
to install. To my surprise a huge list came with ~40 new ebuilds:

  # emerge --pretend --update --deep --newuse world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] net-misc/curl-7.20.0-r2  USE="idn ipv6 ssl -ares -gnutls 
-kerberos -ldap -libssh2 -nss -test"
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Net-SSLeay-1.36
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Net-LibIDN-0.12
[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/Scalar-List-Utils-1.23
[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/libnet-1.22  USE="-sasl"
[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/MIME-Base64-3.08
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/YAML-Tiny-1.41
[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/Test-Harness-3.17
[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/Package-Constants-0.02
[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.024
[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.024
[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.27.03
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.23
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-libnet-1.22
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-MIME-Base64-3.08
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.27.03
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-Test-Harness-3.17
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-Package-Constants-0.02
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.024
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.024
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL-1.33  USE="idn"
[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/digest-base-1.16
[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/IO-Compress-2.024
[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/ExtUtils-ParseXS-2.22.05
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-digest-base-1.16
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL-1.01
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-IO-Compress-2.024
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS-2.22.05
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Digest-SHA1-2.12
[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/Digest-MD5-2.39
[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/IO-Zlib-1.10
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-Digest-MD5-2.39
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-IO-Zlib-1.10
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Digest-HMAC-1.01-r1
[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/Archive-Tar-1.54
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Authen-SASL-2.12  USE="-kerberos"
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-Archive-Tar-1.54
[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/Module-Build-0.36.07
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-Module-Build-0.36.07
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Error-0.17.016  USE="-test"
[ebuild  N    ] dev-vcs/git-1.7.2.2  USE="blksha1 curl iconv perl 
threads webdav -bash-completion -cgi -cvs -doc -emacs -gtk (-ppcsha1) 
-subversion -tk -xinetd"
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/gettext-0.18.1.1-r1 [0.17-r1] USE="git%*"
[ebuild     U ] sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.12 [1.41.11]
[ebuild     U ] sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41.12 [1.41.11]

What happened since yesterday, why suddenly so many ebuilds want
to be newly installed? I checked changelogs for gettext, e2fsprogs
and e2fsprogs-libs but did not find any clue about what caused
all this perl-stuff to be pulled up. Can someone explain it to me?

Jarry

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Re: [gentoo-user] ~40 new perl-related ebuilds, why???

[Willie Wong]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:20:54PM +0200, Jarry wrote:
>  # emerge --pretend --update --deep --newuse world
> 

<snip>
> [ebuild  N    ] perl-core/Module-Build-0.36.07
> [ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-Module-Build-0.36.07
> [ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Error-0.17.016  USE="-test"
> [ebuild  N    ] dev-vcs/git-1.7.2.2  USE="blksha1 curl iconv perl 
> threads webdav -bash-completion -cgi -cvs -doc -emacs -gtk (-ppcsha1) 
> -subversion -tk -xinetd"
> [ebuild     U ] sys-devel/gettext-0.18.1.1-r1 [0.17-r1] USE="git%*"
                                                               ^^^^^

This is pulling in git. Git is pulling in everything else. Remove git
from your USE if you don't need it. For future reference it is easier
to see dependencies if you use the --tree option to emerge. 

Cheers, 

W
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Willie W. Wong                                     wwong@math.princeton.edu
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire 
         et vice versa   ~~~  I. Newton