Apparently, though unproven, at 22:21 on Monday 18 April 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly:
> > These are the items that require libgcrypt with static-libs USE flag > > set. Sometimes changing USE flags on thse packages will change the > > dependency requirements. Sometimes it's just something new that the > > maintainer added since a previous version. > > OK. I was getting confused by "dependency required", which sounds > tautological. What it seems to mean is "package required". It really does mean exactly what it says. Look at it again: (dependency required by "sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.1.3-r3[-dynamic]" [ebuild]) It's saying there is a dependency, and the package that requires it is cryptsetup. Read it like this:: (dependency, required by ..... ) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
