From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HMBje-0000WO-6D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:27:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1RNQc7T023122; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:26:38 GMT Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.235]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1RNMGwJ018468 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:22:16 GMT Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 68so2790028wri for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:22:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UXk1Z9TJrSy3w1x3Ef4M1w7NKNtqIxYbN3cnFvTUUY8RcveAWwwuyMSeSR3u/0NZ5B9edbz74euvYBK6V3qGfq8qna+8HTUioZVVagXuBuHjlQUGvCSG02ILCSY/RNjCgJwPfcSE28JnSfhPQ4lNLgxdABc0sgqtTx+Kjj+UbPo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hKvjWzNzXTjxzvOWCiHYq+UzGyUdzQKTsDP/oZA7mbL4vwcetWXed3Qau11BNPHpY2zJynuyOUj5y0GCvRAMd5oNN/p7qGsZDaAOIjBEZ6RcEvWZg8oKP4fgqrlbSZCTqS7jN23CGYpvc2yuiiYSNmDUhCTwcpvvAlPLDDRfR2c= Received: by 10.114.75.1 with SMTP id x1mr499879waa.1172618535040; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:22:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.115.77.11 with HTTP; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:22:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0702271522v1495f55bk3b6f7cf320b4cfde@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:22:14 -0800 From: "Mark Knecht" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean wants to remove required packages In-Reply-To: <200702271802.06948.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5bdc1c8b0702250950m5516a81bxab47a163d12dce19@mail.gmail.com> <200702262143.09955.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <5bdc1c8b0702261523y16c69e96u59bbaff018ce4473@mail.gmail.com> <200702271802.06948.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-Archives-Salt: 90fb60e9-8c71-47ee-a35a-451fccae58c2 X-Archives-Hash: d7e038eb4e8fc942c6f92318fcc61596 On 2/27/07, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Mark Knecht wrote: > > [ snip lots of useful bacground info] > > > > 2. If you never had gnome installed but did have evo installed, > > > then removed evo, everything looks proper. > > > > > > So, let --depclean do it's thing. Then emerge -uND world and run > > > revder-rebuild to fix anything that remains. > > > > Based on my response above should I be doing this? From the info I > > posted earlier if I emerge -C jasper, as --depclean wants to do, then > > it seems it will just be emerged again at emerge -DuN world. > > > > I'm happy to do it if it's the right thing to do. I'm just not > > understanding why it should fix things. > > You have 15 packages that appear to be problematic, which leaves you > with two realistic options: > > 1. Spend ages tracing each dep down and seeing what gives, or > 2. Just run emerge --depclean followed by revdep-rebuild and emerge -uND > world anyway. Sure, it will take some extra compile time, but it will > also filter out the packages that you actually don't have to worry > about. > > I'd recommend #2, which will hopefully leave us with a much smaller list > of packages to investigate. > > alan > > Hi Alan, OK, I preceded to let emerge --depclean do it's job and then ran revdep-rebuild. It said only samba needed to be rebuilt. When that was complete everything seems clean and happy. No more deps to clean out, emerge -DuN world has no work to do and revdep-rebuiild says everything is cool. Thanks to you and Bo for your help so far. Now on to solving why Evolution is crashing. Hopefully I can get a good backtrace. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list