In this case it is the tsch dependancy for openoffice from openoffice-1.1.0-r2 DEPEND="${RDEPEND} app-shells/tcsh !app-office/openoffice-bin sys-apps/findutils !app-arch/star" and as my memory serves me right tcsh is *only* used by openoffice, (I use bash so I notice it.) even the command bash-2.05b# qpkg -q tcsh does not give a dependancy I removed tcsh and 'emerge -uD world' wants to re-install it therefore emerge is picking up the dependancy. ----- I just notice something else... emerge -p depclean did not pick up the findutils dependancy either and flagged it for removal it would be nice for the output to say it was build dependancy of openoffice only *now* do I now where findutils came from ----- A suggestion: new flags -q = queries *all* dependancies -qr = queries runtime dependancies -qb = queries buildtime dependancies or -q = queries runtime dependancies -qa = queries *all* dependancies -qb = queries buildtime dependancies this way I can know for certain where tsch and findutils come from.
I confirm. The ebuild for gtkdiff contains: # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/x11-misc/gtkdiff/gtkdiff-1.8.0-r2.ebuild,v 1.3 2004/03/23 13:04:29 gustavoz Exp $ <snip> DEPEND=">=gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.1.2-r1 sys-apps/diffutils" <snap> Yet, qpkg says: gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 * GNOME Core Libraries [ http://www.gnome.org/ ] DEPENDED ON BY: gtk-perl-0.7008-r11 gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0 But no mention about gtkdiff, when I had gnome-libs and gtkdiff installed. I have also another case, where qpkg insisted that the set of these packages which I have installed: games-fps/doomlegacy media-libs/libao media-libs/libmikmod media-libs/libsdl media-libs/openal media-sound/xmms media-video/avifile media-video/mplayer depend on esound, but all the ebuilds have the esound dependency under the 'esd' USE-flag, which is explicitly disabled. I ran into this problem by trying to eliminate esound, and I found that it came with gnome-libs. I unmerged all apps assumably requiring gnome-libs (as qpkg reported) and still it didn't get into the depclean unmerge list. Qpkg showed no packages depending on gnome-libs, so I had to check the 'emerge --emptytree -p world' output for packages that might depend on gnome-libs and found gtkdiff. There was also a problem with gdk-pixbuf (the 'gnome' USE-flag, which I never had enabled), qpkg reported that sylpheed-claws and xqf depend on it even the USE-flag said no. I have unmerged gdk-pixbuf and gnome-libs, xqf and sylpheed-claws are still installed and I'm running 'emerge -uDv world'. Gdk-pixbuf and gnome-libs are not coming back, neither is esound. And here's the mandatory info: Portage 2.0.50-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.23-aa1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.23-aa1 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 distcc 2.12.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache fixpackages sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp/portage" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X alsa apm avi berkdb cdr crypt cups encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 guile imap imlib ipv6 jbig jpeg libg++ libwww mad maildir mbox mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla moznoirc moznomail mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib" app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8
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