On Thursday 09 March 2006 03:28, Bo Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)': > On Thursday 09 March 2006 07:49, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > emerge -pvt is giving confusing results; > > basically saying that virtual-x11 is coming in because of packages > > which don't even have an optional dependency on X. :( I tried using > > equery g, but that actually says the packages I'm trying to bring in > > /won't/ need virtual/x11-6.8. > > AFAICT equery detects compile time dependencies (DEPEND) and run time > depencies (RDEPEND) but not post dependencies (PDEPEND). So I think you > need to look for PDEPEND in the ebuilds manually.
This, I did not know. I will look into it. -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh -- [email protected] mailing list
