From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 23:04:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070516230433.1d3f08a7@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705161751.26800.bo.andresen@zlin.dk>
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On Wed, 16 May 2007 17:51:20 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> Circular dependencies are mostly a problem for new users since as soon
> as the dependencies are installed the circular dependencies are
> satisfied and hence irrelevant.
I know, it was in a new install that I got hit.
> The real problem comes when a new user right after finishing install
> sets a bunch of use flags and attempts to emerge gnome or kde only to
> be greeted with 40 lines or more of circular dependencies.
You mean I shouldn't have copied over a make.conf from another machine
without checking? ;-)
I think the important point about this was that it was such a trivial
hiccup to fix - USE="-directfb" emerge -1 libsdl - then continue with the
previous emerge.
--
Neil Bothwick
On the other hand, you have different fingers.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-16 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-04 10:37 [gentoo-user] xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5 Remy Blank
2007-05-07 13:12 ` marco restelli
[not found] ` <f1nd4o$17g$1@sea.gmane.org>
2007-05-07 14:37 ` [gentoo-user] " Remy Blank
2007-05-07 15:11 ` Francisco Rivas
2007-05-08 14:14 ` Dmitry
2007-05-08 14:35 ` Francisco Rivas
2007-05-07 14:53 ` Francisco Rivas
2007-05-07 16:09 ` Grant Edwards
2007-05-07 18:00 ` Francisco Rivas
2007-05-07 18:32 ` Grant Edwards
2007-05-07 18:44 ` Francisco Rivas
[not found] ` <f2d5ap$t7j$1@sea.gmane.org>
2007-05-15 20:56 ` [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5 - Thank you Gentoo devs Francisco Rivas
2007-05-16 5:44 ` Johannes Skov Frandsen
2007-05-16 12:51 ` Francisco Rivas
2007-05-16 12:59 ` Remy Blank
2007-05-16 14:23 ` [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs] Enrico Weigelt
2007-05-16 14:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-16 15:47 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-05-16 16:17 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-05-17 15:46 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-05-16 16:34 ` Rob Rutherford
2007-05-16 22:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-17 13:44 ` [OT] Jakub back? (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]) Naga Toro
2007-05-17 13:59 ` Bryan Østergaard
2007-05-17 16:03 ` [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs] Enrico Weigelt
2007-05-17 17:21 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-05-18 10:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-19 3:00 ` Kent Fredric
2007-05-20 16:49 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-05-20 17:55 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-30 15:43 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Xserver @ oss-qm overlay [WAS: Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies ...] Enrico Weigelt
2007-05-20 23:32 ` [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs] Neil Walker
2007-05-21 1:15 ` kashani
2007-05-21 9:57 ` Andrey Gerasimenko
2007-05-21 10:44 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-05-21 11:15 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-05-16 22:51 ` kashani
2007-05-16 23:08 ` Iain Buchanan
2007-05-17 23:19 ` Mark Shields
2007-05-16 15:51 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-05-16 22:04 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2007-05-16 22:40 ` Dale
2007-05-16 23:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-17 16:10 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-05-17 17:20 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2007-05-17 20:40 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-05-17 18:21 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-05-16 21:31 ` Dan Farrell
2007-05-16 15:58 ` Francisco Rivas
2007-05-16 21:42 ` Jerry McBride
2007-05-16 21:57 ` Dale
2007-05-16 20:53 ` [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5 - Thank you Gentoo devs Remy Blank
2007-05-16 21:01 ` Francisco Rivas
2007-05-17 8:39 ` [gentoo-user] Can't start apache Johannes Skov Frandsen
2007-05-17 9:00 ` Randy Barlow
2007-05-17 9:15 ` [gentoo-user] Can't start apache [solved] Johannes Skov Frandsen
2007-05-17 10:05 ` Johannes Skov Frandsen
2007-05-17 11:21 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-05-17 11:28 ` Johannes Skov Frandsen
2007-05-17 12:33 ` Johannes Skov Frandsen
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2007-05-18 4:56 [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs] burlingk
2007-05-18 10:01 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2007-05-18 17:35 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-05-18 22:48 ` Neil Walker
2007-05-18 10:26 burlingk
2007-05-21 1:41 burlingk
2007-05-30 15:59 ` Enrico Weigelt
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