On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:24:00 -0700 (PDT) Steve Herber <her...@thing.com> wrote:
> I removed a package recently and portage keeps wanting to put it back
> into the system. How can I find out why portage wants to reinstall
> it? Here is a cleaned up example:
>
> emerge --ask --verbose --deep --update world
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild N ] media-video/vcdimager-0.7.23 USE="-minimal -xml" 986
> kB [ebuild U ] dev-lang/php-5.2.10 [5.2.9-r2]
> [ebuild U ] net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.0.11 [1.9.0.10]
> [ebuild U ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.11 [3.0.10]
> [ebuild U ] sys-fs/udev-141 [124-r2]
> [ebuild U ] sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.6-r2 [1.0.5-r1]
> [blocks b ] >=sys-fs/udev-126 (">=sys-fs/udev-126" is blocking
> sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.5-r1)
>
> Total: 6 packages (5 upgrades, 1 new), Size of downloads: 55,215 kB
> Conflict: 1 block
>
> How can I find the package that keeps pulling in vcdimager?
>
> Thanks,
>
Use 'emerge -avDu world --tree'
In general, 'qdepends -Q foo' will return packages that depend on foo
if you have portage-utils
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Joseph Booker
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