From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nna91-0002CX-Qr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:12:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E344E0E0E; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:12:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.3.142]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C03FE0DD2 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:12:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [62.3.120.141] (helo=NeddySeagoon) by smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Nna8m-0000bM-R1 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:12:40 +0000 Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:12:23 +0000 From: Roy Bamford Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4B8F182E.6080207@gmail.com> (from rdalek1967@gmail.com on Thu Mar 4 02:17:18 2010) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.1 Message-Id: <1267805560.3086.0@NeddySeagoon> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="=-x1HQBTXq+ch5xApAuRrE" X-Originating-Smarthost03-IP: [62.3.120.141] X-Archives-Salt: eff02518-aea9-455e-9da3-753ef4cb9cd7 X-Archives-Hash: 019ad880d2add43dcea881e7f58eb7d5 --=-x1HQBTXq+ch5xApAuRrE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2010.03.04 02:17, Dale wrote: [snip] >=20 > Let just think of it this way. I have to reinstall say from a dead > hard=20 > drive. I have copies of my make.conf and world file. I install my > new=20 > drive, download the tarball and unpack it. I copy over make.conf and=20 > world. Naturally cups will be enabled. Then I sync and start to=20 > update. Isn't that circular dependency still going to be there?=20 > After=20 > all, this is how I install Gentoo even if from scratch. I set my USE=20 > line before I start to emerge or update. >=20 > It seems to me, in my situation, this would not solve much. Maybe I > am=20 > incorrect in that. >=20 > Dale >=20 > :-) :-) >=20 >=20 Dale, That's not a new install as per the handbook. Neither are you a new=20 user as you have a premade make.conf and world file and some experience=20 with Gentoo. Put yourself in the place of a brand new Gentoo user doing his/her=20 first install. It needs to just work out of the box, one way or another, without=20 forums posts or calls for help in #gentoo about circular dependences. That's not just cups - thats all circular dependencies. --=20 Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) an member of gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees --=-x1HQBTXq+ch5xApAuRrE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkuRLXgACgkQTE4/y7nJvavVgwCeIHT/dTA+hbm91QKpCNN1P4o2 kMUAoN4DjAzEWW6uK1cWi4x1mJZdENuX =whya -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-x1HQBTXq+ch5xApAuRrE--