Joseph Booker <j...@neoturbine.net> posted 20090626213734.631e8...@fenrir, excerpted below, on Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:37:34 -0500:
> 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? > Use 'emerge -avDu world --tree' > > In general, 'qdepends -Q foo' will return packages that depend on foo if > you have portage-utils Tree is one way, tho it can be somewhat hard to read, particularly with world, due simply to the number of packages world spits out. I don't know anything about portage-utils, but if you have gentoolkit, equery depends <pkg> works for what depends /on/ a package, equery depgraph <pkg> works for what a package depends on. equery is a handy little tool. It's worthwhile learning it. =:^) (Read the manpage.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
