seamonkey dependencies

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blupp75 · Post by **blupp75** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:17 pm

Hi,

I installed gnome (not light) and got seamonkey at the same time. When I updated world the other day I noticed that the seamonkey took a loooong time to compile so I decided to get rid of it (since I use firefox anyway). I did an: "emerge --unmerge seamonkey". The next time I did an "emerge -p --update --deep world" I noticed that it wanted to drag seamonkey into the mix again. Doing a "equery depends seamonkey" revealed that

gnome-extra/yelp-2.14.2-r2
www-client/epiphany-2.14.2.1-r1
dev-python/gnome-python-extras-2.14.0-r1
media-video/totem-1.4.2-r1

wanted seamonkey in place. I added "firefox -seamonkey -mozilla" to my useflags and did an "emerge --update --deep --newuse world". That seemed to solve the problem with "emerge --update --deep world" wanting to pull seamonkey in, *however* - and this is the reason I'm posting - "equery depends seamonkey" still tells me

gnome-extra/yelp-2.14.2-r2
www-client/epiphany-2.14.2.1-r1
dev-python/gnome-python-extras-2.14.0-r1
media-video/totem-1.4.2-r1

and "equery depends firefox" does not give me any packages at all.

What gives?

Thanks in advance for any answers or reflections.

/Per

UncleOwen · Post by **UncleOwen** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:45 pm

equery depends ignores use flags.

blupp75 · Post by **blupp75** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:49 pm

Resulting in it giving an incorrect answer to the dependencies of the current system? I mean, it's just not true that there are installed packages dependent on seamonkey, and it's also not true that there are no packages dependent on firefox.

/Per

optics · Post by **optics** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 3:19 pm

I have the exact same problem (that seamonkey appears on every emerge -uD world) except that putting in the use flags didnt stop it for me...

I am also running XGL and have updated versions of cairo and glitz.. seamonkey wants to downgrade them. If I downgrade them it still doesn't emerge successfully

EDIT: ah you know what, adding the firefox flag did it! the - flags didn't help alone though

blupp75 · Post by **blupp75** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 3:31 pm

But what happens if you do an "equery depends seamonkey"? I've discovered that I get the correct results with 'mozilla-seamonkey' and 'mozilla-firefox':

# equery depends mozilla-seamonkey
[ Searching for packages depending on mozilla-seamonkey... ]

# equery depends mozilla-firefox
[ Searching for packages depending on mozilla-firefox... ]
gnome-extra/yelp-2.14.2-r2
www-client/epiphany-2.14.2.1-r1
dev-python/gnome-python-extras-2.14.0-r1
media-video/totem-1.4.2-r1

#

But without 'mozilla-':

# equery depends seamonkey
[ Searching for packages depending on seamonkey... ]
gnome-extra/yelp-2.14.2-r2
www-client/epiphany-2.14.2.1-r1
dev-python/gnome-python-extras-2.14.0-r1
media-video/totem-1.4.2-r1

# equery depends firefox
[ Searching for packages depending on firefox... ]

#

optics · Post by **optics** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 3:49 pm

same results as you

blupp75 · Post by **blupp75** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:00 pm

It'd make sense if portage simply did not know what packages I was speaking of without prefixing with 'mozilla-', but apparently it recognizes *something* called just 'seamonkey' since it finds packages which it believes depends on it.

I guess you just have to be careful to always use the full name.

cega · Post by **cega** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 1:18 pm

To stop emerge -uD world from pulling seamonkey I had to

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euse -E firefox
euse -D mozilla nsplugin

dleverton · Post by **dleverton** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 1:23 pm

blupp75 wrote:But what happens if you do an "equery depends seamonkey"? I've discovered that I get the correct results with 'mozilla-seamonkey' and 'mozilla-firefox':

# equery depends mozilla-seamonkey
[ Searching for packages depending on mozilla-seamonkey... ]

# equery depends mozilla-firefox
[ Searching for packages depending on mozilla-firefox... ]
gnome-extra/yelp-2.14.2-r2
www-client/epiphany-2.14.2.1-r1
dev-python/gnome-python-extras-2.14.0-r1
media-video/totem-1.4.2-r1

#

But without 'mozilla-':

# equery depends seamonkey
[ Searching for packages depending on seamonkey... ]
gnome-extra/yelp-2.14.2-r2
www-client/epiphany-2.14.2.1-r1
dev-python/gnome-python-extras-2.14.0-r1
media-video/totem-1.4.2-r1

# equery depends firefox
[ Searching for packages depending on firefox... ]

#

That's because there are no packages called "mozilla-seamonkey" or "firefox", therefore obviously nothing depends on them. The SeaMonkey package is called "seamonkey", and the Firefox package is called "mozilla-firefox" (or "mozilla-firefox-bin" if you use that).