From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G1MXR-00080e-0B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:12:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6ECB44F011480; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:11:04 GMT Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.140.230]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6EC5h4E014422 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:05:44 GMT Received: from localhost.localdomain (ool-4578dd70.dyn.optonline.net [69.120.221.112]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6EC5hYV004775 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 08:05:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id AF96A19D4; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 08:05:37 -0400 (EDT) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] infinite battle between emerge --depclean and revdep-rebuild References: <7573e9640607140142n5167d6f1mcacd4a0dd0709a2b@mail.gmail.com> From: Allan Gottlieb Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 08:05:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <7573e9640607140142n5167d6f1mcacd4a0dd0709a2b@mail.gmail.com> (Richard Fish's message of "Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:42:26 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: 48b30bdf-20ff-4795-9185-bf3b255bbb9c X-Archives-Hash: 93203ede77532c79772260ed7c818225 At Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:42:26 -0700 Richard Fish wrote: > On 7/13/06, Allan Gottlieb 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 I did read it, but obviously not with full understanding. That solution, which indeed does solve my problem, is correctly stated to place gst-plugins into the world file. But that is not what I though world was for. I though it was for applications that I use directly. I thought the --noreplace suggestion was for the case when --depclean wants to remove something you actually run. I foolishly hadn't realized that this advice emerge --noreplace was also to be used to break circular dependencies. Thanks for the enlightenment. allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list