Re: [gentoo-user] merging gnome gets circular dependencies

["Dan Cowsill" <danthehat@gmail.com>]

On 2/14/07, Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@zlin.dk> wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 February 2007 23:53:10 John covici wrote:
> >  > In such a case you should just attach it as a compressed file. But
> >  > applying the patch does seem like a good idea. It should be released
> >  > later this week.
> >
> > OK, with the patch applied,  here is the output -- I am a bit confused
> > as to which use flags to change so as to fix this one if that is
> > possible.
> [SNIP]
> > Calculating dependencies  ..... ........ done!
> > !!! Error: circular dependencies:
> >
> > ('ebuild', '/', 'app-doc/doxygen-1.4.7', 'merge') depends on
> >    ('ebuild', '/', 'app-text/ghostscript-gpl-8.54', 'merge') (hard)
> >    ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-3.3.6-r4', 'merge') (hard)
> >    ('ebuild', '/', 'virtual/ghostscript-0', 'merge') (hard)
> > ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-apps/dbus-1.0.2', 'merge') depends on
> >    ('ebuild', '/', 'app-doc/doxygen-1.4.7', 'merge') (hard)
> > ('ebuild', '/', 'net-print/cups-1.2.6', 'merge') depends on
> >    ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-apps/dbus-1.0.2', 'merge') (hard)
> > ('ebuild', '/', 'virtual/ghostscript-0', 'merge') depends on
> >    ('ebuild', '/', 'app-text/ghostscript-gpl-8.54', 'merge') (medium)
> >    ('ebuild', '/', 'net-print/cups-1.2.6', 'merge') (soft)
> > ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-3.3.6-r4', 'merge') depends on
> >    ('ebuild', '/', 'net-print/cups-1.2.6', 'merge') (hard)
> > ('ebuild', '/', 'app-text/ghostscript-gpl-8.54', 'merge') depends on
> >    ('ebuild', '/', 'net-print/cups-1.2.6', 'merge') (hard)
>
> Boy am I glad I don't have to look at this without the patch applied.. ;) It's
> kind of hard to verify but I think adding the following to package.use would
> suffice...
>
> sys-apps/dbus -doc
> app-text/ghostscript-gpl -cups
>
> If that doesn't suffice disabling the cups and dbus use flags for more of
> those packages are the key to get this emerged. Once it's emerged you can
> change the use flags back and remerge with --newuse...
>
> --
> Bo Andresen
>
>

Had the same issues, with the circular dependencies.  I found the dbus
USE flag to be the troublesome one.  While my solution was not as
elegant as Mr. Andresen's, it did work.  I simply ran the emerge
without the dbus use flag.  When it came avahi's turn to compile, it
stopped and balked at me, so I emerged it with the dbus use flag...
from there, installation continues as normal.

Funny, I was freaking out and googling for a half hour when I could
have just checked my inbox :P
-- 
Dan Cowsill
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