Daniel Rolls wrote:
Can anybody explain or refer to an explanation of how
dependencies work in Gentoo?
Well, when you use the -p flag it says: "These are the packages that I
would merge, in reverse order:" I interpret that as being package A
needs B so B will be installed BEFORE A.
Are you following me here?
With that being said, if B needs deps too then depB will be installed
before B AND before A. SO...if x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme is at the
root of a tree it has to be the first dep needed by a dep of kde (or
directly by kde) which portage has so graciously figured out for you.
Or I could tell you that you just need to read the tree output from the
bottom up to figure it out ;) I encourage you to try "emerge -pve
xorg-x11" with and without the --tree flag and perhaps it will make more
sense.
Hope that helps,
Jeremy
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