Xfree 4.3.0-r1 depends on baselayout?

[MadEgg]

As an attempt to fix my font-problems, I decided to upgrade my XFree4.2.3 to the still masked xfree.4.3.0-r1.

So I typed:

[bsolar]

I don't know the dependency issue that you had, but doing --pretend always is reccommended, when emerging...
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[Dessimat0r]

You must have done etc-update, and merged all changes automatically, which messed up your config files.
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[MadEgg]

I did an -p, but I must've missed the baselayout.

And I didn't do an etc-update, that is, not for the files related to baselayout.

I just deleted all those files because I had made lots of changes to /etc/fstab /etc/inittab etc etc etc.

So all updates were removed. And I didn't even WANT to upgrade my baselayout anyway, it performed fine the way it was.

Anyway, that still doesn't explain why XFree depends on baselayout? when I do emerge -u xfree, it's supposed to only install xfree and it's dependencies, isn't it?
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[dreambox]

Hello

When I tried to update Xfree 4.2 to 4.3 with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -up Xfree, indeed emerge tried to update baselayout to an unstable version. when using flag -u, emerge tries to update all dependencies, even if there isn't direct dependency between packages ( Sometimes it is useful if u don't want to update package by package ). As I was told, the best way to update a package is to not use use -u flag, especially if you update to an unstable package ( This prevents other packages that are *indirectly* dependent of ur ebuild to be updated to an unstable version, which could cause a lot of trouble )...

Regards

[MadEgg]

Ahh, that explains the issue.

That would work for everything as everything indirectly depends on baselayout, doesn't it?

Anyway, I'll keep that one in mind in the future
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Asus P4P800 SE, i865PE chipset
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Creative Audigy2 ZS
gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r7
nVidia-drivers version 9755

[dreambox]

I don't know if everything depends on baselayouts, since I don't do anymore emerge -u , but i guess that many packages depend indirectly on sys-apps...