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

[Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>]

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.

-- 
Rgds
Peter