Roman Zilka (Mon, 4 Jul 2011 23:34:01 +0200): > Neil Bothwick (Mon, 4 Jul 2011 22:16:18 +0100): > > 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. > > I checked that - in this case, there are no alternatives.
Ah, I see. I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking enough. Yeah, virtual/pam may be one of a list. But if nothing else, I have openssh and openssh says: RDEPEND="pam? ( virtual/pam ) No alternatives there. And I don't have virtual/pam, but do have openssh. So why does '-uDN world' not pull virtual/pam in? -rz
