From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2658C138010 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:39:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EBE0EE085D; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:39:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8EFFDE074E for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:39:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-x235.google.com (mail-ie0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: floppym) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 95C0A33BE52 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:39:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f181.google.com with SMTP id 17so6402683iea.40 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:39:29 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.6.202 with SMTP id d10mr5672686iga.28.1364143169865; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:39:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.102.66 with HTTP; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:39:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <514E11BD.7010309@desaster-games.com> References: <3565546.OiNQyl8pmS@queen> <514E11BD.7010309@desaster-games.com> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:39:29 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage insists in pulling in sys-apps/kmod From: Mike Gilbert To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: ca5b76b1-4cc5-4d2a-a425-42b78496d615 X-Archives-Hash: 5723d6e3ce589df2216ddab9ed3d20e0 On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Felix Kuperjans wrote: > Mike Gilbert: >> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Dan Johansson 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? > I recognized another issue possibly caused by inheriting linux-mod.eclass: > kmod is pulling in virtual/linux-sources as a dependency, which actually > is not necessary at all (and maybe even annoying, it's at least some > hundred megabytes). > You could also file a bug for that. I have the following in /etc/portage/profile/package.provided to work around it. sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6