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

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Monday 19 October 2009 11:50:11 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;

No, he didn't say that.
 
> portage is asking him
>  to add it to libsoup's USE flags, which, naturally, he's reluctant to do.

Likely because he has OOo and eds built with gnome support. They then insist 
that libsoup also has gnome support.

> I had the same thing come up the other day, and I haven't got round to
>  fixing it yet.

Remove gnome from USE everywhere. You only need gnome support if you use 
gnome. In all other cases USE="gtk" is probably what you want 

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