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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GP1Lg-0003jT-Hl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:26:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8HIPC2D004837; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:25:12 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.191]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8HIKNVI015493 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:20:23 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id p46so3357330nfa for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:20:23 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hl6BStv+fNw5hm6QnjnBoLYKqDuV93TNNFbyIyfBob3l42h7j/2uDtQDIDoUoyfdCTrbX8ETjyQsjsLFeuN1di7O2AgYueNs8Dsnn6jene6aKwkGqh7E3RLfxa/JbqCpoH1TBJWcw8tovKK4etJ5UvhYDdsH8r4aMg9ZHQDzSmA= Received: by 10.49.90.4 with SMTP id s4mr16049670nfl; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:20:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.212.13 with HTTP; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:20:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9acccfe50609171120n5a40aca9m8b576499cd71265f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:20:22 -0700 From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Stray dependency on virtual/x11-7.0-r2 In-Reply-To: <976cb44f0609170017v26716edan756af0cd3bf987ea@mail.gmail.com> 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: <9acccfe50609162318k3563171fib797ef39fc195998@mail.gmail.com> <976cb44f0609170017v26716edan756af0cd3bf987ea@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 8db7bcde-560a-4774-816e-454d3d05ef47 X-Archives-Hash: 3c4c8e324777e59eb0904b2b5f6428da On 9/17/06, Greg Bur wrote: > On 9/17/06, Kevin O'Gorman 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 -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list