Bug 250839 – Remove app-portage/udept from tree

• Status: RESOLVED LATER
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Premek Vohnout 2008-12-13 15:31:27 UTC]

udept project is propably dead. Last version start work strangly. Propably better to get it of the portage tree

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to homepage
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Actual Results:  
404 Not Found

Expected Results:  
200 Ok

[Comment 1 Paul Varner (RETIRED) 2008-12-14 23:30:53 UTC]

app-portage/udept is now package masked.

[Comment 2 Antoine Van-Elstraete 2008-12-15 21:44:22 UTC]

Can we use 'emerge --depclean' instead ? I think it does the same think, isn't it ?

[Comment 3 Premek Vohnout 2008-12-15 21:51:16 UTC]

No, you're wrong this looks to your world file and clean's all records that are dependencies

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2008-12-15 22:00:24 UTC]

You can use `emerge -pv --depclean <atom>` to show the reverse dependencies of an installed package.

[Comment 5 Frank Schmitt 2008-12-21 09:07:00 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> You can use `emerge -pv --depclean <atom>` to show the reverse dependencies of
> an installed package.

Thats not the same. udept cleans all depedencies from world-file automaticly in a few seconds. There nothing comparable in portage-tree. It's a great pity.

[Comment 6 Ryan Hill (RETIRED) 2008-12-22 21:42:06 UTC]

i'd rather this not be removed.  i use it constantly.

ed, do you have any plans for udept?

[Comment 7 Premek Vohnout 2008-12-22 22:41:33 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> i'd rather this not be removed.  i use it constantly.
> 
> ed, do you have any plans for udept?
> 

But it's not working properly with new portage...

[Comment 8 [e-mail] 2008-12-22 22:42:45 UTC]

We could mark this WONTFIX, leave it package.masked, and wait until someone steps up...

[Comment 9 Ryan Hill (RETIRED) 2008-12-22 22:59:02 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > i'd rather this not be removed.  i use it constantly.
> > 
> > ed, do you have any plans for udept?
> > 
> 
> But it's not working properly with new portage...


Could you be more specific?  I don't use the depclean stuff, but the info gathering options and --pruneworld all still work.

[Comment 10 Jeff Wood 2008-12-31 23:35:00 UTC]

This is a handy utility for cleaning the world file.  I'd rather it stayed in but masked, unless/until something else took it's place, or perhaps the world file cleaning functions were added to perhaps emaint.

[Comment 11 Tomasz Kusmierz 2009-01-16 11:48:05 UTC]

I would also like it to stay in tree, I'm using it in on the day to day basis to find rev-deps, and it works a treat ;D So what that development is dead - it usually what hapens when software is working ok, there is no need to waste time on extra versions. 

[Comment 12 Paul Varner (RETIRED) 2010-02-04 03:50:03 UTC]

Won't be removed until completely broken.

[Comment 13 Matt 2010-02-21 20:27:19 UTC]

it's also pretty useful for displaying different versions of a package one below the other when eix and other stuff temporary has broken dependencies (during a system- or world-update):

dep -e foo