Hi Duncan,

thanks for your reply.

I've launche revdep-rebuild; it found 2 problems about libcamel and
libedataserver. Portage is unable to automatic repair and §I'm working on
it.

I think that these libraries, aren't blocking my DE. Are you agree?

2016-10-04 21:46 GMT+02:00 Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net>:

> mr_L4N posted on Mon, 03 Oct 2016 10:42:27 +0200 as excerpted:
>
> > https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3UY2_LU1HQOMlpmTGM4bTFzRDQ
> /view?usp=sharing
>
> > this works,
>
> Thanks, yes.
>
> Again with the disclaimer that I do kde not gnome and thus am unlikely to
> have a clue on gnome-specific issues, so the below is pretty general
> gentoo boilerplate, not really specific to your issue...
>
> The immediately obvious question is that given the problem appeared right
> after an update, did you do a revdep-rebuild and an emerge --depclean
> after your update?
>
> It's possible you need to rebuild something else against the newly
> installed package, and portage didn't catch it and do the rebuild
> automatically as the version deps for what you need to rebuild aren't yet
> that strict.  Revdep-rebuild can catch and rebuild many such packages, tho
> it's gradually becoming less and less necessary as version deps are
> updated to include the previously missing deps information (only newer
> EAPIs allow specifying it properly, and particularly people on stable will
> likely still have a number of older packages that don't have the newer and
> stricter deps specified).
>
> Depclean simply tells portage to clean up any old packages that are no
> longer required by anything in @world but that haven't been uninstalled
> yet.  As long as you run it regularly, you should have everything you want
> in @world and it won't clean up anything you obviously need, but if you
> have an install you've been updating for awhile without running depclean,
> be sure to do a --pretend or --ask first, and carefully check what it
> wants to remove, in case there's something in there you actually do want
> to keep.  If so, you can add that to @world, and depclean won't try to
> remove it any longer.
>
> Also, do you do --deep updates, or not?  Skipping --deep will mean less
> normally unnecessary updates to dependencies, but will occasionally miss a
> necessary one, if there's a mistake in the specified deps for a package.
> Be aware that if you don't normally do --deep and try it, you'll likely
> have quite a long list of updates.  You can either just let them happen,
> or pick thru the list manually, updating anything that looks like it might
> be related to your problem, while leaving the rest alone.
>
> --
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