Am 01.09.2011 15:47, schrieb Doug Hunley: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 22:32, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: >> Why do you want to unmerge net-tools, anyway? > > 'equery depends' shows that nothing needs it, and why keep an entire > package around when I have another package installed that does what > the first package is supposed to do? ;) >
`emerge -pv --depclean sys-apps/net-tools` is more reliable than equery for finding dependencies. It will tell you that net-tools is part of @system. It is generally discouraged for ebuild-developers to add dependencies to stuff that belongs to @system. Therefore equery does not help you find all dependencies. If you are so eager to remove net-tools, you can try to replace all binaries with symlinks to /bin/busybox. It should contain minimal implementations for most binaries like hostname. Note that this can seriously break your system if the busybox implementation is insufficient. Hope this helps, Florian Philipp
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