Re: [gentoo-user] Unwanted dependecies

2006-06-23 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 23 June 2006 14:35, Jure Varlec wrote: I apologize if this was previously discussed, but I couldn't find anything on gmane. And maybe I should post this on gentoo-devel, but I'm not going to molest developers until I understand portage better. Knowing there are users here with good

Re: [gentoo-user] Unwanted dependecies

2006-06-23 Thread Jure Varlec
Thank you for replying. I see now that I should clarify further what is bothering me, as you didn't quite see my point. I guess it got lost in the noise. No more stories then :) Remember USE flags are for *optional* dependencies. Mandatory dependencies will remain no matter what USE flags you

Re: [gentoo-user] Unwanted dependecies

2006-06-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:51:16 +0200, Jure Varlec wrote: Note: you might remember I wrote that oo.org used to be compiled with USE=eds, which pulls these in along with other stuff indirectly through gnome-extra/evolution-data-server. It was the reason these libs were installed in the first

Re: [gentoo-user] Unwanted dependecies

2006-06-23 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 23 June 2006 17:51, Jure Varlec wrote: Thank you for replying. I see now that I should clarify further what is bothering me, as you didn't quite see my point. I guess it got lost in the noise. No more stories then :) It was not lost. Just questioned... [SNIP] Gentoolkit is 0.2.2.

Re: [gentoo-user] Unwanted dependecies

2006-06-23 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 23 June 2006 18:34, Neil Bothwick wrote: AIUI equery works with global USE flags, so if emerge --info still shows eds, equery will think OOo depends on it, no matter what you have in /etc/portage. I am pretty sure that it uses /var/db/pkg/${category}/${name}/USE to determine the USE

Re: [gentoo-user] Unwanted dependecies

2006-06-23 Thread Jure Varlec
On Friday 23 June 2006 18:34, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:51:16 +0200, Jure Varlec wrote: Note: you might remember I wrote that oo.org used to be compiled with USE=eds, which pulls these in along with other stuff indirectly through gnome-extra/evolution-data-server. It was

Re: [gentoo-user] Unwanted dependecies

2006-06-23 Thread Jure Varlec
On Friday 23 June 2006 19:40, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: I do have openoffice and gnome-vfs too. equery depends gnome-vfs does report openoffice for me despite the fact that the gnome use flag is disabled. So I tried removing gnome-vfs from /var/db/pkg/app-office/openoffice*/{R,}DEPEND. That

Re: [gentoo-user] Unwanted dependecies

2006-06-23 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 23 June 2006 20:41, Jure Varlec wrote: Hm. I guess it's not hard to imagine equery fails to read USE flags correctly and that would make it a bug. Benno has now provided references that shows that `equery depends` was not designed to consider use flags. Enhancement bugs has already