Robert Larson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been having some issues for a while with trying to run deep updates on 
> one of my servers.  My hope was that someone else had the problem, but I 
> can't seem to find anything on bugzilla concerning this.
> 
> Basically this server is setup as clean as I can get it since it is acting as 
> a gateway.  I don't want a lot of packages installed, let alone xorg.  Yet, 
> when I run a deep update:
> 
> # emerge -vuDp world
> 

add in t

emerge -vuDpt world

to see what pulls in Xorg-x11


> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> 
> Calculating world dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild  N    ] x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r3  19 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.3  732 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1  -3dfx -3dnow +bitmap-fonts -cjk 
> -debug -dlloader -dmx -doc -font-server -hardened -insecure-drivers +ipv6 
> -minimal +mmx +nls -opengl +pam -sdk +sse -static +truetype-fonts 
> +type1-fonts (-uclibc) -xprint +xv 45,094 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] dev-lang/tk-8.4.9  -threads 3,189 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] app-arch/rpm2targz-9.0-r3  2 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/utempter-0.5.5.5-r1  20 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] x11-terms/xterm-200-r3  -Xaw3d -toolbar +truetype +unicode 
> 681 
> kB
> 
> Thinking it was possibly the USE flags, I tried to put a '-' in front of each 
> flag:
> # eval "$(emerge --info | grep ^USE | perl -p -e 's/([\",\s])(\S)/$1-$2/g;') 
> emerge -vuDp world"
> 
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> 
> Calculating world dependencies ...done!
> [blocks B     ] sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.5-r3)
> [ebuild  N    ] x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r3  19 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.3  732 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1  -3dfx -3dnow -bitmap-fonts -cjk 
> -debug -dlloader -dmx -doc -font-server -hardened -insecure-drivers -ipv6 
> -minimal -mmx -nls -opengl -pam -sdk -sse -static -truetype-fonts 
> -type1-fonts (-uclibc) -xprint -xv 44,665 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] dev-lang/tk-8.4.9  -threads 3,189 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] app-arch/rpm2targz-9.0-r3  2 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/utempter-0.5.5.5-r1  20 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] x11-terms/xterm-200-r3  -Xaw3d -toolbar -truetype -unicode 
> 681 
> kB
> [ebuild  N    ] sys-libs/libtermcap-compat-1.2.3-r1  539 kB
> 
> I have still been able to perform deep updates by manualy specifying the 
> packages I do want to update, but I am still a bit concerned as to what may 
> be causing this.  Any ideas would be appreciated.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Robert Larson

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