On Friday 24 October 2003 21:46, Dennis Freise wrote:
> Thank you for your hints, Spider.
>
> > perhaps.  did you know there's a reason why --deep isn't the
> > default behaviour of update?  *Cough*
>
> Yes I knew that. But I think that's no reason for --deep to work since
> yesterday, and now not anymore :)
>
> > however, there's likely to be something that causes it, if you're
> > stubborn, go through qpkg -nc -I, package by package and do
> > "emerge -Duvp <package>"    until you find the culprit.
>
> Yeah, I really get stubborn over this :) What I did was:
>
> # for FILE in `qpkg -nc -I`; do echo $FILE >>out.txt; emerge -uvp $FILE
>
> >>out.txt; done
>
> With -Duvp xfree was a dependancy for _all_ packages :S
> With -uvp xfree was _no_ dependancy at all!
>
> Something smells bugish here ;)

Check /var/cache/edb/virtuals. If it's not in there check /var/cache/edb/
world. I think you'll find it in the first one though. Yes, there is a bug in 
portage but I haven't been able to figure out under what situations it 
occurs. Either that or it never removes packages from virtuals.

Regards,
Jason

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