On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 22:48:44 +0200, Roman Zilka wrote: > Not quite. This is how I'm thinking: if '-ep world' says virtual/pam > needs to be installed, then it either > * is in the world file, or > * is in the system set, or > * is a buildtime or runtime dependency (immediate or deep) of one of the > packages in the world set (i.e., world file and system set combined).
There's another possibility, that it is one of a number of packages that satisfy a particular dependency, the first listed one. If you have another package installed that fulfils this dependency, emerge -u world won't need to do anything, but with emerge -e world you are telling portage that the other package is not installed, so it picks the first dependency from the list. -- Neil Bothwick I'm not opinionated, I'm just always right!
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