Hi, I cannot find in the manpage several answers: How can I list which packages are required for example by package biopython. I think it is masked on my machine because of dependencies. I looked at emerge(1) manpage. Second, how can I save space on my computer. The source directories where packages have been compiled are not cleaned. Is "rm -rf /var/tmp/portage" as described in ebuild(1) typical way to cleanup? That directory consumes almost no space. So where are the tar.gz source files fetched from network? They seem to remain on the computer, right?
emerge --pretend or emerge search will help you. /usr/portage/distfiles
Sorry, I don't see what has been fixed. ;) The manpage emerge(1) doesn't meantion /usr/portage/distfiles at all. Please expalin in mapage what consequences happen when user deletes recursively /usr/portage/distfiles. Regarding the first question in original report and your answer: vrapenec root # emerge --pretend biopython These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "biopython" have been masked. !!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct. vrapenec root # What am I supposed to learn from that? So why is biopython masked? What are thos edependencies?
