Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and python needed by scribus.

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> Can someone tell me what this means?
>>>
>>> root@smoker / # emerge -p --depclean
>>>
>>>  * Always study the list of packages to be cleaned for any obvious
>>>  * mistakes. Packages that are part of the world set will always
>>>  * be kept.  They can be manually added to this set with
>>>  * `emerge --noreplace <atom>`.  Packages that are listed in
>>>  * package.provided (see portage(5)) will be removed by
>>>  * depclean, even if they are part of the world set.
>>>  *
>>>  * As a safety measure, depclean will not remove any packages
>>>  * unless *all* required dependencies have been resolved.  As a
>>>  * consequence, it is often necessary to run `emerge --update
>>>  * --newuse --deep @system @world` prior to depclean.
>>>
>>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>>
>>>>>> Checking for lib consumers...
>>>>>> Assigning files to packages...
>>>>>>
>>>  * In order to avoid breakage of link level dependencies, one or more
>>>  * packages will not be removed. This can be solved by rebuilding the
>>>  * packages that pulled them in.
>>>  *
>>>  *   dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r3 pulled in by:
>>>  *     app-office/scribus-1.3.3.11
>>>  *
>>>
>>>>>> Adding lib providers to graph...
>>>>>>
>>>  \
>>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>>
>>>
>>> I have re-compiled scribus about three times now.  I have also ran
>>> python-updater a few times and it just keeps rebuilding scribus and
>>> boost in a endless loop.  What am I missing here?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Dale
>>>
>>> :-)  :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Possibly scribus isn't compatible with python-2.6? The few times I've
>> run into this with depclean I've removed the app (scribus in this
>> case) cleaned up the machine with depclean and revdep-rebuild, and
>> then reinstalled the app from scratch. If it tries to pull in
>> phython-2.5 then you just have to make a choice whether you want it or
>> not. (Or look for a mased ebuild, etc.
>>
>> - Mark
>>
>>
>>
>
> LOL  Since I would rather try to remove Scribus than python, I'll remove
> Scribus, do some cleaning, then reinstall and see what happens.  We all
> know what could happen if I remove python that portage is using.  o_O
>
> I'll report back if it continues after all this.  Thanks to both Alan
> and Mark on this one.  I was getting drunk going around in circles with
> this.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
>

I assume you've installed python-2.6 as part of emerge @system or
@world and then run python-updater? That process has worked on my
machines but I don't use too many office apps.

Good luck!

Cheers,
Mark