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Blind_Sniper
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 Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2021 7:43 am Post subject: Unneeded packages |
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Hi!
After today emerge --sync / emerge -avuDN world I noticed few new packages that portage tryes to pull in:
| Code: | [ebuild N ] acct-group/nullmail-0::gentoo 0 KiB
[ebuild N ] acct-user/nullmail-0::gentoo 0 KiB
[ebuild N ] dev-lang/python-exec-conf-2.4.6:2::gentoo PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_9 (-pypy3) (-python3_10) -python3_8" |
I cheched 'equery d' output to watch wich packages pulling these stuffs, but equery output was empty. So I wondering why do I need these packages ?
May be it's a kind of quest from devs - "try to keep your system clear and sane" ?
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fedeliallalinea
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| Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2021 7:56 am Post subject: |
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The acct-group/nullmail and acct-user/nullmail are used by mail-mta/nullmailer for manage user group, this used to be handled directly in the ebuild.
The dev-lang/python-exec-conf is used by dev-lang/python-exec (see news item)
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asturm
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| Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:11 am Post subject: Re: Unneeded packages |
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| Blind_Sniper wrote: | | I cheched 'equery d' output to watch wich packages pulling these stuffs, but equery output was empty. |
`equery d` does not work before these packages are actually installed. It is a fast but crude tool. |
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Blind_Sniper
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| Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:02 am Post subject: |
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So which tool to use if I want to check dependecies?
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Run emerge command with also --tree option
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