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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:42:26 -0700
From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] infinite battle between emerge --depclean and revdep-rebuild
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On 7/13/06, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
> ajglap gottlieb # emerge --ask --depclean; revdep-rebuild --pretend

Looks like a circular dependancy between gst-plugins-alsa and
gst-plugins.  Circular dependancies are not handled well in portage.

> *** WARNING ***  --depclean is known to be broken. It is highly recommended
> [rest of warning snipped]

Did you read the rest of the warning???  It gives you the solution:

emerge --noreplace gst-plugins

-Richard
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