Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild dependencies and the --tree switch

2006-04-01 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Daniel Rolls wrote: Can anybody explain or refer to an explanation of how dependencies work in Gentoo? Well, when you use the -p flag it says: "These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:" I interpret that as being package A needs B so B will be installed BEFORE A. Are you

[gentoo-user] ebuild dependencies and the --tree switch

2006-03-24 Thread Daniel Rolls
Hi, I'm trying to understand how ebuild dependencies work in gentoo. If I type: emerge -vpu --deep --tree kde-base/kdebase I see the package x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.12.1 at one of the roots of the tree. The kdebase version is 3.5.1-r3. Firstly how can anything other than kde-base/kdebase b