On Sun, 24 May 2015 21:51:08 +0200
Marc Espie <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 08:28:39PM +0200, Adam Wolk wrote:
> > OK folks, I think something is either wrong with my install or in
> > the way the tools determine dependencies.
> > 
> > I am now at a point where pkg_delete -a removes required
> > dependencies and a following call to pkg_add -u adds them back.
> > This doesn't feel right.
> > 
> > If this is an issue with my box then please free to say so. I
> > decided to write it up because I saw recent commits from Marc
> > regarding dependency resolution. That's also the reason why I'm
> > CC'ing him.
> 

Hi Marc,

> Nope, there was no change to pkg_add regarding that. Have you tried i

I may have been unfairly unclear in this point. I saw recent changes
regarding dependency checks in the port tools. I'm not saying they
caused issues (not even possible as they happened after my last
upgrade). I only include you in case they were made because of of a
similar issue (as in my lack of those patches resulting in me hitting
those problems). All in all I have an environment where I can reproduce
reliably removing dependencies that are still needed and the tooling
trying to add them back (realizing that they are indeed needed).

> pkg_check ? it should tell you if you have actual dependencies issues.

Yes I did try pkg_check before and as noted in previous emails it is
the tool that confirmed that I'm missing a chunk of dependencies.

https://gist.github.com/mulander/22bd38d5c6515decef71

That gist is a sample pkg_check output from a single tool after
pkg_delete from a previous run. Plus me running gnome control
center to confirm that those libs are actually missing.

After that I was running pkg_add -u which added the missing
dependencies back to the system.

I'm not doubting that the libs are missing and that causes problems.
What I'm worried about is pkg_delete -a removing them even though they
are used.

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