On Saturday 23 March 2013 15.06:05 Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Dan Johansson <dan.johans...@dmj.nu> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Some of my servers are running with a kernel without module-support. > > On these servers something has started to pull in sys-apps/kmod, which when > > compiled complains about missing modules-support in the kernel (as it > > should). > > Doing an "equery d sys-apps/kmod" I can see that the following two packages > > depends on sy-apps/kmod: > > sys-fs/udev-197-r8 (kmod ? >=sys-apps/kmod-12) > > virtual/modutils-0 (sys-apps/kmod[tools]) > > > > sys-fs/udev has "-kmod" in its USE-flags, so that should not be an issue). > > # emerge --verbose --pretend sys-fs/udev > > [ebuild R ] sys-fs/udev-197-r8 USE="acl openrc -doc -gudev -hwdb > > -introspection -keymap -kmod (-selinux) -static-libs" 0 kB > > > > With virtual/modutils its an other thing, here we have a circular > > dependency between virtual/modutils and sys-apps/kmod if the tools USE-flag > > is set. > > That circular dep is interesting; sys-apps/kmod only depends on > virtual/modutils because it inherits linux-mod.eclass. > > Could you file about about the circular dependency please? Bug 462926 (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462926) is opened for the circular dependency.
My more immediate question is "Why is virtual/modutils & sys-apps/kmod pulled in at all?" and "How can I prevent it?" Here the output of my "emerge update" # emerge --update --deep --verbose --reinstall changed-use --with-bdeps y world --pretend --tree These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ] virtual/modutils-0 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/kmod-12-r1 USE="tools zlib -debug -doc -lzma -static-libs" 0 kB [ebuild N ] virtual/modutils-0 0 kB Regards, -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *************************************************** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! ***************************************************
