Re: [gentoo-user] ">=net-libs/libsoup-2.25.1:2.4[gnome]" Huh?

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 10:50 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday 19 October 2009 06:31:24 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Monday 19 October 2009 04:42:43 Dale wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > My light bulb is not working tonight.  I just synced and checked for
> > >
> > > updates and ran into this little "issue":
> > > > root@smoker / # emerge -uvDNfa world
> > > >
> > > > These are the packages that would be fetched, in order:
> > > >
> > > > Calculating dependencies ... done!
> > > >
> > > > emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy
> > > > ">=net-libs/libsoup-2.25.1:2.4[gnome]".
> > > > !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request:
> > > > - net-libs/libsoup-2.26.3-r3 (Change USE: +gnome)
> > > > (dependency required by "dev-libs/libgweather-2.26.2.1" [ebuild])
> > > > (dependency required by "gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.26.3"
> > > > [ebuild])
> > > > (dependency required by "app-office/openoffice-3.1.1" [installed])
> > > > (dependency required by "@world" [argument])
> > > >
> > > > root@smoker / #
> > >
> > > It seems it wants me to turn on the gnome USE flag but I use KDE and
> > > have more than enough gnome stuff pulled in already.  Is there a "sane"
> > > way around this?  I know OOo is installed and the data server was pulled
> > > in by something ages ago.  I have KDE 3.5 and KDE 4 installed.
> >
> > If you don't use the gnome desktop (just some apps here and there), remove
> > gnome from USE. OOo especially wants to pull in a load of stuff with that
> > in place
> 
> The way I read Dale, he already has no gnome in USE; portage is asking him to 
> add it to libsoup's USE flags, which, naturally, he's reluctant to do.
> 
> I had the same thing come up the other day, and I haven't got round to fixing 
> it yet.
> 
Try adding -gnome to the use flags rather than letting portage get
confused.

BillK