* Mick (michaelkintzios@gmail.com) [01.09.08 19:35]:
> On Sunday 31 August 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:04:03 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > > $ eix -Iu --only-names
> > > app-arch/lzma-utils
> > > dev-libs/libsigc++
> > > media-plugins/gst-plugins-x
> > > media-plugins/gst-plugins-xvideo
> > > sys-apps/hdparm
> > > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
> > > virtual/perl-Test-Harness
> > >
> > > However, when I run emerge -upDv --with-deps y world I get just one
> > > package:
> > >
> > > Where's the others gone?
> >
> > Probably old dependencies that are no longer needed? Did you run
> > emerge --depclean -p?
>
> No! --depclean is evil! ) (and/or my system is borked).
>

Your system is borked! ;-)



> It tells me to remove dev-python/pycrypto, when portage seems to depend on it:
>
> # equery depends dev-python/pycrypto
> [ Searching for packages depending on dev-python/pycrypto... ]
> sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 (!build? >=dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r6)
>

Well you could just add it to your world file, but I really think there
is something misconfigure on your system.

> Also, it tells me to remove hdparm-8.6. I noticed that there is a 8.7 version
> available, but emerge -uDv world does not pick this up . . . why would that
> be so?
>

hdparm is not in the world file, and since no other package is depending
on it, portage is considering it's removal.

with emerge -n hdparm you can add it.

> # emerge -upDv hdparm
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild U ] sys-apps/hdparm-8.9 [8.6] 75 kB
>
> Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 75 kB
> # emerge -upDv world
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating world dependencies |
> ... done!
>
> Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB

All correct: hdparm is not in your world file.

Sebastian

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* Mick (michaelkintzios@gmail.com) [01.09.08 20:22]:
>
> Where should I look?
>

An emerge --info is a start..

> >
> > with emerge -n hdparm you can add it.
>
> Sure, but I had emerged (many years ago) so it should be in there, right?
>

Not necessarily, maybe you unmerged the package which required it,
removed the useflag which pulled it in or the dependency simply
vanished.

So just look at /var/lib/portage/world if it's in there.

If not: emerge -n hdparm, if you still want it.

Sebastian

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* Neil Bothwick (neil@digimed.co.uk) [01.09.08 23:14]:
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 11:49:36 +0100, Mick wrote:
>
>
> > It tells me to remove dev-python/pycrypto, when portage seems to depend
> > on it:
> >
> > # equery depends dev-python/pycrypto
> > [ Searching for packages depending on dev-python/pycrypto... ]
> > sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 (!build? >=dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r6)
>
> equery is borked. pycrypto is a conditional dependency of portage, but
> equery depends takes no accounts of that, emerge --depclean does.
>

But it is a *negativ* condition: portage is not depending on pycrypto if
and only if the build useflag is specified, which noone should specify.

So --depclean should not consider it to be removed.

Sebastian

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