On 7/27/25 6:46 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > I've run into this before, eg re sound, but not so severely. > It's a defect in Portage, which no-one seems to want to acknowledge : > it will happily update a pkg without including its vital requirements.
I think that shouldn't be able to happen except when using --oneshot, or at least, all the times I can recall seeing this were in such a case -- because portage allows uninstalling or upgrading a package to break another installed package, iff that other package is eligible for --depclean. But that is why you're advised to regularly do a full world update followed by depclean... > I was able to solve the problem with the help of 'pkg.ref', > my own invention long ago (I've been using Gentoo since 2003). > Here is an extract, listing all 'media-libs' pkgs which are installed : > > 230717 media-libs/a52dec-0.7.4-r8 [for vlc] > 250427 media-libs/alsa-lib-1.2.13-r3 [for FF] > 230717 media-libs/alsa-topology-conf-1.2.5.1 [for alsa-lib] Is this manually maintained? What happens when a package is installed due to multiple other packages? For top level packages I like to use /etc/portage/sets/* which supports comments describing why each package should be in @world. -- Eli Schwartz
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