Re: [gentoo-user] Sonic-Visualiser compile error

["Arttu V." <arttuv69@gmail.com>]

Mr Cramer, you replied in private email, but your blacklist bounced/dropped my 
consequent reply. Replying on-list:

On Saturday 31 January 2009 18:07:02 you wrote:
> But emerge tolds me:
>
> emerge -pv rasqual
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "rasqual".

There is a typo: just drop the extra 'u'. It's just rasqal, like you used it 
correctly here below:

> while qsearch says:
>
> qsearch rasqal
> dev-libs/rasqal library that handles Resource Description Framework (RDF)
>
> Before I screw up my system:
> Is there something more fundamental damaged?

This is the spot where I think FEATURES="buildpkg" should be
mentioned. It will help you roll back the old binaries should
something bad happen. It is mentioned on the list regularly by many
posters, most of them more experienced with it than I am. :)

Still, I don't think upgrading rasqal should cause major havoc. Worst
thing that happened to this box was that openoffice and soprano wanted
to be re-emerged. So just some automated extra compiling, no big deal
for me. YMMV

> Or does rasqal only exists as unstable ebuild (reading your posting
> I would tend to answer this with "NO" ...

0.9.10 has been stable on Gentoo for nearly three years according to
/usr/portage/dev-libs/rasqal/ChangeLog

The newer versions have had some bugs reported, but they have been
fixed. You can look them up in bugs.gentoo.org if you're worried.

-- 
Arttu V.