On Friday 27 November 2009 15:53:41 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 27 November 2009 17:27:30 James wrote: > > Mick <michaelkintzios <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > Hmm, I thought that kweather, kate and kfloppy were brought in by some > > > meta or other. It seems that I'll have to install these on their own? > > > > Hello Mick, > > > > I'm just not certain any more exactly which packages belong to > > which meta(kde) package. I think they are added and dropped > > over the last few years, resulting in a dynamic grouping > > or like those you mentioned, not being picked up by and of the > > kde-meta packages. > > You fellows really need to read the full set of portage man pages. You > sound like mechanics that don't know how spanners work.
I'm sure there's a spanner thrown somewhere in the works ... > The contents of packages is determined by upstream (KDE), not by the gentoo > devs. Gentoo devs merely split the monolithic tarballs up into whatever > apps the KDE devs say is inside it > > To find out what is in a -meta package: > > cat $PORTDIR/kde-base/*-meta/*ebuild > > There isn't a special tool to do this, much as there isn't a tool to tell > you what stuff DEPENDs on say apache. There is a general tool, it's > equery depends -a [snip ...] > To find out what depends on kate, kweather and kfloppy, use the correct > portage tool: > > a...@nazgul ~ $ equery depends -a kate > * Searching for kate ... > kde-base/kdesdk-meta-4.3.1 (>=kde-base/kate-4.3.1:4.3[kdeprefix=]) > kde-base/kdesdk-meta-4.3.3 (!kdeprefix ? >=kde-base/kate-4.3.3[-kdeprefix]) > (kdeprefix ? > >=kde-base/kate-4.3.3:4.3[kdeprefix]) OK, but I am getting this much - slightly different to yours above: # equery depends -a kate [ Searching for packages depending on kate... ] kde-base/kde-meta-4.3.1 (>=kde-base/kate-4.3.1:4.3[kdeprefix=]) kde-base/kdesdk-meta-4.3.1 (>=kde-base/kate-4.3.1:4.3[kdeprefix=]) Now, fair enough, I do not have kde-base/kde-meta installed, so nothing wants to pull back in kate when I update world. > > Let me know if you find a silver bullet (syntax) for discerning > > what kde packages are grouped into which meta package or > > not grouped at all.. > > This is Unix. We use grep, sed and awk to find stuff. > > Much faster than just about anything else... Right, but only if your regex-fu is good enough. Mine is rather pathetic ... :-( Grateful for all help received to pick up the right spanner. ;-) -- Regards, Mick
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