Dave Nebinger wrote: > Okay, I finished an "emerge --update --deep world" this morning. Everything > was cool. > > This afternoon, however, I decide I want to install eclipse to migrate a > windows java development effort to my gentoo box. > > Did an "emerge --pretend dev-util/eclipse-sdk" to see what I was going to get. > > I was surprised to see it wanting to emerge ant-core because I thought I > already had it in place, so a quick eix call results in: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix ant-core > Search results: 1 > * dev-java/ant-core > Available versions: 1.5.4-r2 1.6.2-r5 ~1.6.5-r2 > Installed: 1.6.2 > Homepage: http://ant.apache.org/ > Description: Java-based build tool similar to 'make' that uses > XML configuration files. > > So obviously it is in there, in my world file and everything. > > The question is, shouldn't portage have updated to the latest -r5 ebuild as a > result of the "--update --deep world" update previously?
The likely explanation is that ant-core is not a dependency (direct or deep) of your "world" list. One way to verify is with "emerge -a depclean". If you want to keep any of the depclean packages then you should add some to /var/lib/portage/world. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
