From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage insists in pulling in sys-apps/kmod
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:06:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ0EP40NKMtsOruQy5mHy_crRYQppa1bobQpBbeB+yp61J_oFw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3565546.OiNQyl8pmS@queen>
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Dan Johansson <Dan.Johansson@dmj.nu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Some of my servers are running with a kernel without module-support.
> On these servers something has started to pull in sys-apps/kmod, which when compiled complains about missing modules-support in the kernel (as it should).
> Doing an "equery d sys-apps/kmod" I can see that the following two packages depends on sy-apps/kmod:
> sys-fs/udev-197-r8 (kmod ? >=sys-apps/kmod-12)
> virtual/modutils-0 (sys-apps/kmod[tools])
>
> sys-fs/udev has "-kmod" in its USE-flags, so that should not be an issue).
> # emerge --verbose --pretend sys-fs/udev
> [ebuild R ] sys-fs/udev-197-r8 USE="acl openrc -doc -gudev -hwdb -introspection -keymap -kmod (-selinux) -static-libs" 0 kB
>
> With virtual/modutils its an other thing, here we have a circular dependency between virtual/modutils and sys-apps/kmod if the tools USE-flag is set.
That circular dep is interesting; sys-apps/kmod only depends on
virtual/modutils because it inherits linux-mod.eclass.
Could you file about about the circular dependency please?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-23 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-23 17:42 [gentoo-user] portage insists in pulling in sys-apps/kmod Dan Johansson
2013-03-23 19:06 ` Mike Gilbert [this message]
2013-03-23 20:34 ` Felix Kuperjans
2013-03-24 16:39 ` Mike Gilbert
2013-03-24 8:04 ` Walter Dnes
2013-03-24 10:45 ` Dan Johansson
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