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 4.54) id 1F9p2A-0000O1-Gb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:43:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1GJehRC005197; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:40:43 GMT Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.203]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1GJX8Wi001778 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:33:09 GMT Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i30so136298wxd for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:33:06 -0800 (PST) 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=dn5w65MlYwnMUxGcL2RJikQuR3YY4m3pYW8SwMsSzWa82i+ZjldWV6MNaNj+bwauEtKyKW1763vzJLJtSEOU1uTdTLrfUGGGZiAmESrorhN0fHixRPd6JXbrmrdUsFSP4UB7JbEnS0GP47AH8b1Ssgspvpa73kWkQzI8USgDSpM= Received: by 10.70.109.18 with SMTP id h18mr43155wxc; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:33:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.77.9 with HTTP; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:33:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:33:03 -0500 From: Nick Smith To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] package dependencies In-Reply-To: <4bf052bf0602161113g5b3a02e4o9ce416fd3171d465@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 Content-Disposition: inline References: <4bf052bf0602161113g5b3a02e4o9ce416fd3171d465@mail.gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k1GJX8Wi001778 X-Archives-Salt: 3e15d659-be22-4752-802a-a2d0efa38976 X-Archives-Hash: c79d474ca8e5bf79b83ab81727935996 On 2/16/06, Ghaith Hachem wrote: > usualy portatge tells you what is blocking what > anyway try emerge -av it will give you an idea of what you need > right, but i want to know that the package im going to remove because its blocking something else isnt needed by another package on my system that has nothing to do with the package im trying to emerge. can that be done? am i making any sense? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list