On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 14:25 +0200, Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: > But now, qpkg does not exist anymore, and I've read it was replaced by > equery.
See other messages for how to get qpkg back. > However, there are two problems with equery: > 1. it disregards the use flags. equery depends <package> displays all > packages that may depend on a package, not the ones that really do on my > system. > I remember seeing something in bugzilla about this issue, but is was > marked as fixed, but I could not figure out in which version (I have the > latest gentoolkit). Can you give me an example? I'm not sure that I understand the issue. > 2. it disregards the virtual packages. According to equery, I cas safely > remove xorg-x11 (!), because no one depends on it! But if I do so, all > packages depending on the virtual x11 package would be broken. > > So, considering this, can someone point out how can I safely remove a > package? That is because the packages don't depend on xorg-x11, they depend on anything the provides the functionality of X. An equery depends virtual/x11 will show all of the packages that are dependent upon X. I have noted this as a potential enhancement to have equery look at the provides information and display the dependencies of the provided virtual. Regards, Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
