BDEPEND is apparently invisible to equery depends/depgraph. That's a problem when you're trying to figure out what's pulling in a package and it's a BDEPEND. Background: My latest update pulled in cython, but equery depends cython could only see the USE=python dependent yasm and kmod deps, and I don't have USE=python set, thus explaining why I didn't have cython already merged. I went ahead with the update but then went to check what was pulling it in after the update finished, as the post-update emerge --depclean (with bdeps=y) didn't want to unmerge cython either. equery depends /still/ refused to help me! I ended up having to do an emerge --pretend --tree --emptytree @world and search the output for cython to find it was the new lxml-4.3.0 pulling it in, then check the lxml ebuild itself to find the dependency. Turns out the new lxml has a BDEPEND on cython. That naturally begged the question[1] of what was pulling in lxml, which turns out to be a BDEPEND of systemd-240-r2. Once I figured that out what packages were pulling in lxml and cython I tried an equery depgraph to see if at least that worked. No. I also tried without luck qdepend from portage-utils, but that's the next bug... equery depends/depgraph should (at least optionally) be able to tell me about BDEPENDs as well. --- [1] Begged the question: Yes, I know the circular logic definition, but the literal component-words meaning of figuratively begging that the question be asked is now the more common usage. Now I tend to footnote either meaning, tho this is my more common usage as well, as I tend to use the clearer "circular logic" when I wish to convey the less transparent meaning.
Fixed with the patch for bug #685538 and bump to 0.4.5. Thanks. Closing. (Hmm... resolved/obsolete or resolved/fixed? Both apply, but given no reply here I guess it's now obsolete.)
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/gentoolkit.git/commit/?id=43ecd536e7b8ad2af343288fe2e6d919f8edf5aa commit 43ecd536e7b8ad2af343288fe2e6d919f8edf5aa Author: Virgil Dupras <vdupras@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-05-11 22:42:09 +0000 Commit: Virgil Dupras <vdupras@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-05-11 22:42:09 +0000 Include BDEPEND in dep checks Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/685538 Signed-off-by: Virgil Dupras <vdupras@gentoo.org> pym/gentoolkit/dependencies.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
