On Friday 27 October 2006 13:06, Dale wrote: > I am trying to keep my new install nice and clean, nothing useless > lurking around. I run emerge -p --depclean world on occasion and I > > finally got this one: > > >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: > > > > sci-libs/fftw > > selected: 3.0.1-r2 > > protected: none > > omitted: none [SNIP] > > So I did a little research, to make sure it was really not used by > > anything. This is what I got: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # equery depends fftw > > [ Searching for packages depending on fftw... ] > > media-libs/libsamplerate-0.1.2 [SNIP] > So it seems libsamplerate needs fftw, and a few things need > libsamplerate. So if removing fftw breaks libsamplerate then could that > lead to the ones needing libsamplerate breaking to? Sounds like > dominoes falling to me.
Sounds like you've disabled the fftw use flag of libsamplerate. --depclean is generally pretty safe when `emerge -DNp world` doesn't want to do anything. Better to use `dep -L fftw` from app-portage/udept or `pquery --vdb --revdep sci-libs/fftw` from sys-apps/pkgcore. -- Bo Andresen
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