On Saturday 30 September 2006 03:41, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > when doing a > > eix-sync && emerge --pretend --tree --verbose --update --deep world > > I got often an output like this one: > > [nomerge ] perl-core/Test-Harness-2.56 > > I looked in the manual pages of emerge and ebuild but found no > explanaition for the "[nomerge]" tag. > > What does it mean? "For heavens sake! -- DONT install THAT!" ??? :O) ;)
It means it's already installed and whatever follows it is being pulled in by it... (or it is in the PDEPEND/postdepend of what follows it). This particular package is actually in PDEPEND of dev-lang/perl. It should be followed by at least one line that says [merge] and due to --tree this shows what pulls that in. I do realize that the output when adding --tree to emerge isn't particular well documented (or easy to document) so interpreting it does require a bit of guessing (or looking at the ebuilds)... -- Bo Andresen
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