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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  [solved] Re: xorg-server upgrading problem
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:21:52 +0200
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On Tuesday 10 November 2009 11:46:50 Roy Wright wrote:
> Unmerged all of x11, then installed xorg-server-1.6.5 and it is
> working now.
> 
> One of the issues I hit is that python-3.1.1-r1 can not be installed
> with the tk use flag due to cyclic dependencies when installing xorg
> (portage insists on installing python before libX11 so python[tk]
> fails as it is missing Xlib.h).

Would this work?

emerge python with USE=-tk
install libX11
install python with USE=tk 

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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com