Re: [gentoo-user] Portage strangeness with imagemagick

[Dan Johansson <Dan.Johansson@dmj.nu>]

On Thursday 29 October 2009 19.52:52 Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 29 Oktober 2009 19:39:27 schrieb Dan Johansson:
> > Today when I do an update world on one of my serves I get the following:
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------8<-------------------
> >-- ----------------------------- # emerge --update --deep --verbose
> > --reinstall changed-use --with-bdeps y world --pretend --tree
> >
> > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
> >
> > Calculating dependencies... done!
> >
> > emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy ">=x11-
> > libs/cairo-1.6[X]".
> > !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request:
> > - x11-libs/cairo-1.8.8 (Change USE: +X)
> > (dependency required by "x11-libs/gtk+-2.16.6" [ebuild])
> > (dependency required by "media-gfx/ufraw-0.15-r1" [ebuild])
> > (dependency required by "media-gfx/imagemagick-6.5.2.9" [ebuild])
> > (dependency required by "www-apps/gallery-2.3" [ebuild])
> > (dependency required by "world" [argument])
> > ----------------------------------------------------8<-------------------
> >-- -----------------------------
> >
> > As this is a server I really do not want/need X on this host.
> 
> So why do have gtk+ in your USE, then? That's the one that makes ufraw pull
>  in gtk+ which in turn wants cairo with the X flag. OTOH, this doesn't mean
>  you'll get X installed on your machine. You'll only get a handful of X
>  libs.
> 
> > I can not see why it works if I first deletes all USE flags (-*) and the
> >  just sets the USE flags I need again.
> 
> Because it's not imagemagick that wants cairo with X (which the emerge
>  output above clearly states).
> 
> Bye...
> 
> 	Dirk
> 
Yes, I can see that it's not imagemagick directly that pulls in cairo. And I 
do not have the gtk USE flag set:

# euse -i gtk
global use flags (searching: gtk)
************************************************************
[-    ] gtk - Adds support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit)
<...snip...>

-- 
Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu>
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