Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 10:54 AM Ian Zimmerman <i...@very.loosely.org > <mailto: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 >
I usually do a emerge -et either -p or -a then package name to get a tree list of what it depends on and what is pulling it in. On some packages tho, it can get rather long. Example: emerge -etp firefox or emerge -eta firefox Doesn't either one of those q commands or equery do this as well??? Whichever works. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
