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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] depclean / db & php loop
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:29:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091101112910.380e72b1@majikthise> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0910311642w439202cbqc88f83a76bd07d0e@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:42:49 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:

>    Earlier today emerge --depclean wouldn't remove db because 3
> programs needed it so I rebuilt the 3 programs but it's still
> complaining about php. Sometimes I'll just remove the problem package
> - like db in this case - and then let an emerge -DuN @world /
> revdep-rebuild fix it, but I wanted to be careful with db as it might
> be important to portage or eix.
> 
>    What's the right way to fix this?

The way you normally do, unmerge that specific db package then re-emerge
the packages that depended on it. Or, as suggested elsewhere, get rid of
the berkdb USE flag.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-01 11:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-31 23:42 [gentoo-user] depclean / db & php loop Mark Knecht
2009-11-01  2:16 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2009-11-01  2:26 ` walt
2009-11-01  4:13   ` Mark Knecht
2009-11-02  0:43   ` Joshua Murphy
2009-11-01 11:29 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]

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