on Saturday 04/25/2009 Alan McKinnon(alan.mckin...@gmail.com) wrote
> On Saturday 25 April 2009 20:52:28 Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> > On 25/04/09 Michael P. Soulier said:
> > > app-text/poppler-bindings and app-text/poppler aren't needed by anything
> > > right now.
> >
> > So, I just unmerged them and now my upgrade path looks good.
> >
> > I'm not sure what pulled in those newer versions previously.
>
> You did.
>
> You had it in world, remember. At some point you did something like this:
>
> emerge poppler-bindings
>
> So, it went in world, portage continued to emerge it to the latest and
> greatest newest version every time you ran emerge -avuND world. Eventually
> all
> consumers of the library were removed and you were left with an unused
> package
> in world.
>
> Incidentally, poppler has a long and fine history of insanely breaking
> users'
> configs every time its developers sneeze. The number of times I've had
> poppler
> show up in revdep-rebuild output defies any kind of sane, logical, rational
> description. Not even Microsoft can breaks so many things so often, and
> that's
> saying something...
OK, so this brings up the question, how do I make sure (if there is a
way to do so) that my world file does not contain anything which it
should not -- I am sure I have made the mistake of forgetting to put
the -1, so it would be interesting if there were a way to at least get
a list of such packages.
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