Re: [gentoo-user] Problem while doing `emerge --emptytree system

[Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org>]

Jason Castonguay wrote:

>Hi listers.
>
>I'm in the process of installing gentoo for the first time and am now in
>the process of going from stage 2 to stage 3.  I am trying to do
>
>emerge --emptytree system
>
>It seems to be fine until it gets to installing openssl (14 of 186 apps
>to be installed).  The process stops and says that perl 5 is required.
>This is understandable, but I thought emerge was supposed to be "aware" of
>this sort of thing and install apps in the correct order.  I did a
>  
>

There is probably a circular dependancy here caused by USE flags.

You can try:

USE="minimal -*" emerge --deep --oneshot perl

You should then be able to run the emerge --emptytree system command 
again.  It will start over from the beginning, but there is no way to 
avoid that right now...

-Richard

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