On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, gentuxx wrote: > As a clarification, I have the "net-dialup/" subtree excluded from > portage as described by another thread on this list > (/etc/portage/rsyc_excludes). But when I run "emerge --ask --verbose > - --update --newuse --deep world", I get the "net-dialup/ppp" package as > one that is queued to be installed. I can only guess that this means > that it's a dependency of another package that is already installed. > So, how would I found out what the "root" package is that is requiring > net-dialup/ppp as a dependency?
If you add the --tree (or -t) flag to the emerge command it will show what package (and/or USE flag) is pulling it in. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
