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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 7/14/06, Janusz Bossy <janusz.bossy@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/14/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
> > Looks like a circular dependancy between gst-plugins-alsa and
> > gst-plugins. Circular dependancies are not handled well in portage.
>
> Wow! How can something have circular dependencies? Can you explain that to me?
Yep.
If gst-plugins is merged with the alsa useflag, it depends on gst-plugins-alsa.
But the gst-plugins-alsa ebuild inherits gst-plugins.eclass, which
creates a dependancy on gst-plugins.
-Richard
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