On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 14:10 +0100, Thomas Kahle wrote: > ... if it is used in the ebuild? > > It is a system package here on amd64, but is it everywhere? > > Cheers, > Thomas >
Only if the pkg is also a system package. I recently ran into a problem running a catalyst build because portage-utils did not list the xz-utils dep which was another system package. It failed to unpack because xz-utils was still waiting to be merged. I was running catalyst with --jobs=3.
