On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:34:55 -0500 (EST)
"Benjamin R. Haskell" <[email protected]> wrote:
On an old Gentoo system, I'm in the middle of changing from the
postgresql + libpq to postgresql-base + postgresql-server split. There
are things that keep drawing in libpq as a dependency. While trying to
figure out one such thing, I added --show-reasons full, and realized I
don't know what it's telling me... Is there a useful description of its
output somewhere (beyond "show why packages are being (un)installed")?
The 'reasons' are a list of packages whose dependencies include the item
in question. That's all there is to it.
[...trimmed...]
For a concrete case, what does this final portion of this output mean?
Is net-libs/openslp the culprit (thing that requires
dev-db/postgresql)?
* dev-db/postgresql [N 8.0.15]
"Sophisticated and powerful Object-Relational DBMS."
-doc kerberos nls pam perl -pg-intdatetime python readline
(-selinux) ssl -tcl -test xml zlib
I don't see any reasons listed at all there.
Huh, indeed. I rarely use '--show-reasons', so I didn't notice that there
wasn't a "Reasons: " line.
I didn't get back to this until today, but I figured out that the problem
was cyrus-sasl-2.1.22-r1 pulling in dev-db/libpq:
# all one line
paludis --dl-upgrade as-needed --show-reasons full -1ai apr-util |& perl
-lnwe 'print "=$1-$2" if
/^\*\s((?:(?!::installed)\S)+)\b.*\[[NUD\-]\s(?:\S+\s->\s)?(\S+)\]/' |
xargs -iZ paludis -qD Z | less
Shouldn't cyrus-sasl have shown up in the "Reasons:" line for
dev-db/libpq? or is there some interaction between '--dl-upgrade
as-needed' and the fact that it was a dep for an installed package?
Best,
Ben
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