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

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>
> Yes, I ran python-updater after the last python upgrade which was a week
> or so ago.  I just hadn't ran --depclean yet.  Needless to say, OOo just
> had to be recompiled too.  It always does.  Usually, about a week later,
> they have a upgrade for OOo which means I get to warm up my CPU again.
> Never fails.  :/
>
> So far, I have unmerged scribus, ran revdep-rebuild which didn't
> complain about anything this time and I am currently reinstalling
> scribus.  No errors so far.
>
> I didn't get to test the python USE flag tho.  According to emerge -pv
> scribus, it doesn't have that flag.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)

You actually compile OO? Wow! OO-bin for me. Couple of minutes and
it's installed.

Glad you got the problem fixed.

Cheers,
Mark