[gentoo-user] "Error: circular dependencies"

[gentoo-user] "Error: circular dependencies"

[Grant]

This ebuild is from the java-overlay.  Is it just a bad ebuild or can
I fix this?  I tried disabling the nsplugin USE flag with the same
result.

# emerge icedtea6
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/icedtea6-1.3.1-r2  USE="nsplugin -cacao
-debug -doc -examples -javascript -pulseaudio -shark -zero"
* Error: circular dependencies:
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-java/icedtea6-1.3.1-r2', 'merge') depends on
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-java/icedtea6-1.3.1-r2', 'merge') (hard)
* Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily
* disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies.

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] "Error: circular dependencies"

[Peter Alfredsen]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:59:41 -0800
Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:

> This ebuild is from the java-overlay.  Is it just a bad ebuild or can
> I fix this?  I tried disabling the nsplugin USE flag with the same
> result.
> 
57 	DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
58 	        || ( >=virtual/gnu-classpath-jdk-1.5
59 	                 dev-java/icedtea6
60 	                 dev-java/icedtea6-bin
61 	        )
It comes from that line. It looks like it's for bootstrapping icedtea6,
which apparently can be done by itself or the two other alternatives.
emerging icedtea6-bin should fix this. It can then be unemerged when
you've emerged icedtea6 and from then on you can bootstrap updates with
the existing installation.

/PA

Re: [gentoo-user] "Error: circular dependencies"

[Grant]

>> This ebuild is from the java-overlay.  Is it just a bad ebuild or can
>> I fix this?  I tried disabling the nsplugin USE flag with the same
>> result.
>>
> 57      DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
> 58              || ( >=virtual/gnu-classpath-jdk-1.5
> 59                       dev-java/icedtea6
> 60                       dev-java/icedtea6-bin
> 61              )
> It comes from that line. It looks like it's for bootstrapping icedtea6,
> which apparently can be done by itself or the two other alternatives.
> emerging icedtea6-bin should fix this. It can then be unemerged when
> you've emerged icedtea6 and from then on you can bootstrap updates with
> the existing installation.

Thank you, that worked.

- Grant