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veek

Member

Registered: 2006-03-10

Posts: 167

Possible issue with dependency tracking?

I was just thinning out my herd of packages and decided to remove the gnome package group.

I noticed that I couldn't remove control-center because it's required by compiz-git.
Edited the compiz-git PKGBUILD (DaNiMoTh's one from AUR)
to remove the gnome dependency and took control-center out of the 'depends,' array.

I then made and installed the modified package, but 'pacman -Qi control-center,' still showed
compiz-git in the 'Required By' field even though the new package no longer had the dependency.

Seems that if a package stops being a dependency the change isn't reflected in pacman.

I could just Pacman -Rd, but it feels messy in this situation, and I don't think it's the right approach. 

Any thoughts on this?

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Possible issue with dependency tracking?

It's a bug in pacman, fixed there:
http://projects.archlinux.org/git/?p=pa … fb891b9f4c

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pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))

veek

Member

Registered: 2006-03-10

Posts: 167

Re: Possible issue with dependency tracking?

Ah should have looked in flyspray, thanks for pointing that out, shining.

Last edited by veek (2007-08-06 21:13:08)