Re: [gentoo-user] huge (wrong) list in emerge -upvD world

2004-01-10 Thread Mike Arrison
On Jan 10 15:28, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > For the record, what was dragging everything in? Various things, but the big one was my messed up installation of gnucash. -Mike Arrison pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] huge (wrong) list in emerge -upvD world

2004-01-10 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Mike Arrison wrote: On Jan 10 14:59, Andrew Gaffney wrote: This is what I do when I'm trying to figure out what is dragging in a bunch of weird dependencies. Add the following line to /etc/portage/package.mask. If the file doesn't exist, create it. sys-kernel/development-sources When you figur

Re: [gentoo-user] huge (wrong) list in emerge -upvD world

2004-01-10 Thread Mike Arrison
On Jan 10 14:59, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > This is what I do when I'm trying to figure out what is dragging in a bunch > of weird dependencies. Add the following line to /etc/portage/package.mask. > If the file doesn't exist, create it. > > sys-kernel/development-sources > > When you figure out w

Re: [gentoo-user] huge (wrong) list in emerge -upvD world

2004-01-10 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Mike Arrison wrote: On Jan 10 15:01, Bill Roberts wrote: I've seen similar problems when using emerge -D. Eliminating that seemed to solve the problem. Why?? Don't know. Another good thought. But that doesn't fix my case. Observe this rediculous list even without the D(ependancies). -Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] huge (wrong) list in emerge -upvD world

2004-01-10 Thread Mike Arrison
On Jan 10 15:01, Bill Roberts wrote: > I've seen similar problems when using emerge -D. Eliminating that seemed > to solve the problem. Why?? Don't know. Another good thought. But that doesn't fix my case. Observe this rediculous list even without the D(ependancies). -Mike Arrison mozart r

Re: [gentoo-user] huge (wrong) list in emerge -upvD world

2004-01-10 Thread Bill Roberts
On 12:55 Sat 10 Jan , Mike Arrison wrote: > Recently, my emerge world has been getting really out of hand. A week > or two ago it wanted to install apache2 for no particular reason. Now, > among other things, it wants apache2, postgresql, php, metacity, and > development-sources. None of

Re: [gentoo-user] huge (wrong) list in emerge -upvD world

2004-01-10 Thread Mike Arrison
On Jan 10 12:02, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Mike Arrison wrote: > >Recently, my emerge world has been getting really out of hand. A week > >or two ago it wanted to install apache2 for no particular reason. Now, > >among other things, it wants apache2, postgresql, php, metacity, and > >developmen

Re: [gentoo-user] huge (wrong) list in emerge -upvD world

2004-01-10 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Mike Arrison wrote: Recently, my emerge world has been getting really out of hand. A week or two ago it wanted to install apache2 for no particular reason. Now, among other things, it wants apache2, postgresql, php, metacity, and development-sources. None of these are in /var/cache/edb/world

[gentoo-user] huge (wrong) list in emerge -upvD world

2004-01-10 Thread Mike Arrison
Recently, my emerge world has been getting really out of hand. A week or two ago it wanted to install apache2 for no particular reason. Now, among other things, it wants apache2, postgresql, php, metacity, and development-sources. None of these are in /var/cache/edb/world or virtuals. B