On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 10:54 AM Ian Zimmerman <i...@very.loosely.org> wrote: > > Why does portage insist on installing busybox for me? > > As far as I know the only use for it on a desktop system is for > initramfs. I have no initramfs, therefore I have no need for busybox. > I unmerged it and nothing bad happened except for a warning from portage > that it is part of my profile set. I went ahead and ignored the > warning. > > But now I updated the tree and emerge -p shows it will be installed > again. Why is that? The only reverse dependencies are virtuals which > are satisfied in other ways, like virtual/awk. So is it the profile > thing? But I have done the same with other profile packages (notably > editors/nano) and those are _not_ coming back. > > -- > Ian
emerge is your friend. Something like emerge -p -e should. I believe, tell you where every package dependency comes from. It's not always fun to read but the answer to your question should be there. - Mark
