From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E1Ts3-0008Vc-Dk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:58:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j76IvLQ1006034; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 18:57:22 GMT Received: from smtp011.mail.yahoo.com (smtp011.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.31]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j76IqxdG031263 for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 18:53:00 GMT Received: (qmail 92525 invoked from network); 6 Aug 2005 18:52:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.101?) (richard?j?fish@68.230.97.177 with plain) by smtp011.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Aug 2005 18:52:59 -0000 Message-ID: <42F5070C.9070608@asmallpond.org> Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 11:53:00 -0700 From: Richard Fish User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050723) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem while doing `emerge --emptytree system References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cbd7bd01-a170-4ecd-8a83-4efb2cba264c X-Archives-Hash: b10a3aafc45b422f1f299bbd6950e21a 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list