Unneeded packages being reinstalled

suck_ma_penguin · Apprentice Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 180

I have recently unmerged some packages which I deemed to be unnecessary (gnome-themes, gnome-icon-themes, wv2). However, despite the fact the equery shows that these packages have nothing depending on them, revdep-rebuild doesn't find them, and

fctk · Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 11:22 am Post subject:

i suggest you to use a tool called "unclepine"...
to see if gnome-themes is needed, you can just do:

djm · Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 11:23 am Post subject:

Odd - if emerge -u world doesn't want to install them, then they can't still be in your world file, and they aren't depended on directly by anything that's in your world file, so I suppose *something* must depend on them :/

Are you sure that you did emerge -uDt world and not just emerge -ut world

Maybe you could post the output of emerge -uDtp world ?

You could also try grepping for them in /var/db/pkg/*-*/*/*DEPEND
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suck_ma_penguin · Apprentice Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 180

I'm absolutely certain that I typed the right command, and I know that something must be pulling them in, it's just that this something seems to be nonexistant or invisible! The puzzling thing is that they aren't pulled in without the -D flag, and that the -t flag shows nothing pulling them in, which is very confusing!

*UPDATE*

unclepine finds no dependencies for these packages either. The list of packages with no deps that aren't in world but are still installed is now:
wv2
gnome-themes
gnome-icon-theme
hicolor-icon-theme

This is sample output from emerge after removing gnome-icon-theme and gnome-themes@

bonbons · Apprentice Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 250

suck_ma_penguin · Apprentice Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 180

I have tried --newuse, all my flags are up to date. I will try --emptytree and get back to you!

On the --emptytree pretend, the two packages are both at the top of their respective dependency trees, despite not being installed. Something really fishy is going on here...

morbus · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 8:21 pm Post subject:

It's not a bug, it's a feature ;-)

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104969
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104970

theDreamer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Posts: 118

Did anyone solve it?

I dont see the connection between the gnome-icon-theme & gnome-themes to the open bugs..
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gigs94 · n00b Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Posts: 52 Location: DC

This seems really old but I just changed from the hardened profile to 2006.0 and emerge is trying to install both of these (and all their dependancies). This wasn't a problem on the hardened profile at all.

p_ansell · n00b Joined: 12 May 2005 Posts: 33 Location: Brisbane, AU