Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 06:13, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
I have seen it mentioned here several times that equery depends ... is
broken. Is there a good way to determine package dependency?
This shows all dependencies required for $pkg:
# emerge -pve $pkg
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 08:26, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
Maybe I meant reverse dependency. Not sure. I want to know what depends
on a particular package so that I can decide whether I can delete it or
not.
Yes, that's reverse dependencies.
The portage way is to see if it shows up on
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 08:47, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
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Yes, that's reverse dependencies.
The portage way is to see if it shows up on emerge --depclean --pretend. If
it doesn't then you have something in your world file that depends on it.
If the package itself is in your world
I have seen it mentioned here several times that equery depends ... is
broken. Is there a good way to determine package dependency?
Tony
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On Wednesday 11 October 2006 06:13, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
I have seen it mentioned here several times that equery depends ... is
broken. Is there a good way to determine package dependency?
This shows all dependencies required for $pkg:
# emerge -pve $pkg
For an alternative you may have a
is there a way to tell what packages are required by what? for
instance i have a package that is blocking another package when i do
an emerge, is there a way to tell if the package that is blocking the
other is actually needed by any other package on the system before i
unmerge it?
thanks
Nick
usualy portatge tells you what is blocking what
anyway try emerge -av it will give you an idea of what you need
On 2/16/06, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is there a way to tell what packages are required by what? for
instance i have a package that is blocking another package when i do
On 2/16/06, Ghaith Hachem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
usualy portatge tells you what is blocking what
anyway try emerge -av it will give you an idea of what you need
right, but i want to know that the package im going to remove because
its blocking something else isnt needed by another package on
On 2/16/06, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/16/06, Ghaith Hachem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
usualy portatge tells you what is blocking what
anyway try emerge -av it will give you an idea of what you need
right, but i want to know that the package im going to remove because
its
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