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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage insists in pulling in sys-apps/kmod
From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
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On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Felix Kuperjans
<felix@desaster-games.com> wrote:
> Mike Gilbert:
>> 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?
> 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