On Sunday 17 September 2006 08:18, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I just switched to modular X, and got to the point where the system > comes up okay. > I have a few remaining puzzles and problems. Here's one: > > When I do emerge -aDvu world, it wants to emerge > [ebuild N ] virtual/x11-7.0-r2 USE="dri" 0 kB
I have to say that I am a bit curious as to which package would require you to
install virtual/x11. Please add --tree to `emerge -aDvu world` and show what
pulls this in.
virtual/x11 is a virtual package which means it depends on a number of other
packages but provides nothing other than it's dependencies...
> The migration guide says this can happen when there's an outdated package.
Sounds about right...
> But equery says there are well over 100 such packages that depend on
> virtual/x11.
As has been said before on this list equery is broken and unreliable. Last I
checked it had 44 open bugs against it. When a 100 packages show up for
`equery depends virtual/x11` it means that 100 packages have a dependency
that could be satisfied by virtual/x11. That's quite different from 100
packages depend on virtual/x11. In most if not all of those cases one or
several other packages would be able to satisfy the same dependency hence
virtual/x11 isn't actually required at all (at least on my system it isn't):
$ eix -e x11
* virtual/x11
Available versions: 6.8 7.0-r2
Installed: none
Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/
Description: Virtual for the core X11 implementation
$ equery depends virtual/x11 | wc -l
387
$ emerge -uvpD world
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating world dependencies... done!
Total size of downloads: 0 kB
> And they're all up to date. I've been running stable so far,
> with very few exceptions. Am I really to go unstable with all of these?
Nope.
> This seems extreme in view of the fact that a great many of them are KDE
> things, but KDE seems to be working just fine.
Of course.
[SNIP]
Can I get away with just waiting for a while?
Sure.
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Bo Andresen
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