Bug 254009

Summary:	sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.4 depclean wants remove dev-python/pycrypto
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Toralf Förster <toralf>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2009-01-06 20:21:55 UTC

but that package is a dependency for portage itself :

n22 ~ # equery d dev-python/pycrypto
[ Searching for packages depending on dev-python/pycrypto... ]
sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.4 (!build? >=dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r6)

(OTOH depclean is much more useable nowadays than - say months - before).


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Nick Fortino 2009-01-07 02:14:31 UTC

This is perfectly valid. equery doesn't actually check that the dependency is needed, just whether it is in the ebuild. From the portage ebuild:
PDEPEND="
        !build? (
                >=net-misc/rsync-2.6.4
                userland_GNU? ( >=sys-apps/coreutils-6.4 )
                || ( >=dev-lang/python-2.5 >=dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r6 )
        )"

Assuming you have python-2.5, pycrpto is not needed.

Comment 2 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-07 04:41:15 UTC

As you can see, "equery depends" does not always give very precise information. The best source for checking dependencies still are the corresponding ebuilds.