Dale wrote:
>
> The way to read that above is this. The package at the top,
> virtual/ssh, is pulling in pciutils, libudev and eudev. Note how it is
> indented. After that, sys-fs/udev-init-scripts is pulling in udev,
> eudev and on down the list. So, if you want to know what is pulling in
> shared-mime-info, it would be glib which is right above it. In this
> case, you can see mime as a USE flag. It may be that you can turn that
> off. You may can do it for just that one package or you may have to
> globally. Everyone has a different way to tackle that. Just pick
> whatever works for you. Personally, I try to go global when I can. On
> occasion tho, I do packages separately. Just keep in mind, sometimes
> you can have several packages pulling in another package. At times, it
> can get pretty deep.
>
> If you have colors turned on, watch those. The colors can sort of point
> out the problem sometimes too.
>
> And nomerge means it is already installed and there is no changes, it
> won't recompile it or anything. It is just showing you what is pulling
> in what. Also, if you are using -a and say yes, it runs that list
> backwards if I recall correctly.
>
> Maybe that will get you a little bit further. ;-)
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
>
I forgot to add this little tidbit.
root@fireball / # euse -i mime
global use flags (searching: mime)
************************************************************
[- ] mime - Add MIME support
local use flags (searching: mime)
************************************************************
[- ] mime
dev-libs/glib: Pull in shared MIME database that many glib-based
applications require at runtime to detect or open files. Warning: do
not disable this flag unless installing on a headless server.
(1) 1.2.10-r6 [gentoo]
[+ B] (2) 2.44.1-r1 [gentoo]
[+ B] (2) 2.46.2-r3 [gentoo]
[+ B] (2) 2.48.2 [gentoo]
[+ B] (2) 2.50.0 [gentoo]
[+ B] (2) 2.50.1 [gentoo]
[+ B] (2) 2.50.2 [gentoo]
root@fireball / #
So, unless you are running a headless server, you may want to give
disabling that a good thinking over.
Dale
:-) :-)
