From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:27:40 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <j3th0d$3ms$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201109031420.05672.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
On 09/03/2011 04:20 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday 03 September 2011 11:55:06 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>> You can trust it because portage *is* the package manager, and the
>> package manager always knows what the dependencies of packages are.
>> Tools like equery can do analysis and stuff, but the final decision of
>> what gets installed and what's needed is up to Portage. So if you can't
>> trust the package manager, you're screwed anyway :-)
>
> Well I did trust it yesterday when it decided it ought to remove MySQL. What
> the hell, I thought: I can put it back easily enough.
>
> So today when I started KMail it wouldn't. I had not only to remerge MySQL
> but to add mysql USE flag to qt-sql in package.use and remerge qt-sql as
> well.
Which is 100% correct behavior. Nothing in your system needed MySQL
installed, and qt-sql was merged without the "mysql" USE flag.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-03 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-02 15:34 [gentoo-user] equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2 James
2011-09-02 15:59 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2011-09-02 16:09 ` Mark Knecht
2011-09-02 16:25 ` James
2011-09-02 19:06 ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-09-02 19:17 ` Mark Knecht
2011-09-02 19:32 ` Brennan Shacklett
2011-09-03 10:13 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-03 19:26 ` Mark Knecht
2011-09-03 10:55 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-09-03 13:20 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-09-03 15:27 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2011-09-03 18:52 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-09-03 20:49 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-09-03 21:13 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-09-02 16:14 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2011-09-03 13:15 ` Peter Humphrey
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