Re: [gentoo-user] Stray dependency on virtual/x11-7.0-r2

["Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>]

On 9/17/06, Greg Bur <greg.bur@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/17/06, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I just switched to modular X, and got to the point where the system
> > comes up okay.
> > I have a few remaining puzzles and problems.  Here's one:
> >
> > When I do emerge -aDvu world, it wants to emerge
> > [ebuild  N    ] virtual/x11- 7.0-r2  USE="dri" 0 kB
> >
> > The migration guide says this can happen when there's an outdated package.
> > But equery says there are well over 100 such packages that depend on
> > virtual/x11.  And they're all up to date.  I've been running stable so
> far, with
> > very few exceptions.  Am I really to go unstable with all of these?  This
> seems
> > extreme in view of the fact that a great many of them are KDE things, but
> > KDE seems to be working just fine.
> >
> > What's a guy to do?  Can I get away with just waiting for a while?
>
>
>
> emerge -aDvut will show the dependency tree which should tell you which
> package requires virtual/x11-7.0-r2.  Once you have narrowed down which
> package requires it to be installed you can deal with it from there.
> Instead of going unstable with your entire system you can add the offending
> package to /etc/portage/package.keywords for instance.  If it's a package
> you know you don't need you could also remove it.  HTH
>
> Regards,
>
> Greg

Thanks.  That was very helpful.  The --tree showed that there was only one
culprit package, and I don't need it.  Bye, bye, problem.

++ kevin

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