On 2020.04.05 16:03, Mark Knecht wrote:
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
I find "emerge -p -c busybox" even easier, and it tells me busybox is
required by @system.
Jack
