Alex Alexander wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please revbump an ebuild after changing its USE dependencies.
>
> Using net-p2p/transmission as an example, it used to depend on
>     dev-qt/qtgui:4=[dbus]
> however, qtgui lost the dbus useflag, so the dependency was changed to
>     dev-qt/qtgui:4=[dbus(+)]
> without revbumping the transmission ebuild. [0]
>
> Portage fails to notice this when resolving dependencies if the
package was
> installed prior to the change, resulting in errors like the following:
>   (dev-qt/qtgui-4.8.5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts
>         with dev-qt/qtgui:4/4=[dbus] required by
>             (net-p2p/transmission-2.80::gentoo, installed)
>
> which, I imagine, could be very frustrating for a user who doesn't mess
> with the internals of Gentoo often.
>
> You might think that such a revbump is overkill, but in reality the
user will
> have to re-emerge the package anyway in order to get rid of the error,
so there
> is no point in avoiding it, unless portage changes the way it handles
these
> changes.
>
> [0]
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-p2p/transmission/transmission-2.80.ebuild?r1=1.1&r2=1.2
>
> Thanks,

As a lowly user, I have been banging on this for a few days now.  I'm
almost bald from all the hair pulling.

Dale

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