Bug 9941

Summary:	emerge depclean incorrectly calculates dependency
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Max Kalika (RETIRED) <max>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) <carpaski>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	mholzer
Priority:	High
Version:	1.4_rc1
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Max Kalika (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-10-29 23:46:03 UTC

After emerging vcron, I get ssmtp and mailbase.  Immediatly doing an emerge -p 
depclean, shows that mailbase is slated to be removed.  My guess is that the 
RDEPEND file in /var/db/pkg/net-mail/ssmtp-* has all the dependencies listed on 
the same line and parsing fails somewhere.

What is really strange is that this is not a problem on a different machine.  
The failing one is a workstation and the correctly working on is a network 
server/router.

Comment 1 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-11-04 19:22:01 UTC

dupe of 9779

Comment 2 DC 2002-12-04 21:09:05 UTC

I have a similar problem. Depclean wants to wipe out DirectFB and its
dependencies even though I explicitly USE directfb. I'm just guessing here, but
I think here's what's happening: I have both gtk+-1.2.10-r9 and gtk+-2.0.6-r2
installed (both have different SLOTs). gtk+-1.2.10-r9 does not need DirectFB,
but gtk+-2.0.6-r2 does. Perhaps depclean is only doing its calculations with
gtk+-2.0.6-r2, and ignoring gtk+-2.0.6-r2.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-01-08 13:45:04 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9779 ***