Well I now have it all completely working and dumped my findings here: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/HOWTO_Gnome_3
Hopefully it helps the next person coming to Gnome 3 from a fresh install. On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Jason Weisberger <jbdu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was getting that error after syncing late last night. Here is the > information I got on the situation that prompted me to remove > introspection from :2 > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/dev/241030 > > However after reading that more thoroughly and not having my system in > front of me I think I might not have unmasked the latest version of > pygobject:2 which uses the introspection flag not to build > introspection support, but to automatically pull in pygobject:3 for > it. > > I'm probably trying to build the old pygobject with built-in > introspection support which conflicts with introspection in :3. > > So I think I finally figured out all my problems, I'll get home > tonight after work and give it a try. Hopefully someone will Google > this list and find this helpful, if not confusing. > On Dec 3, 2011 10:50 AM, "walt" <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 12/02/2011 07:37 PM, Jason Weisberger wrote: > >> > >> > >> Everything is compiling perfectly, albeit without fallback mode. Any > >> ideas for resolving the pygobject:2 introspection block so I can > >> install it? > >> > >> > >> pygobject:2 needs -introspection to be able to slot :2 and :3 on the > >> same system. > > > > > > That's not true on my system. I have pygobject-3.0.2 and 2.28.6-r50 > > *with* introspection, and I just re-emerged both of them without problem. > > > > Are you still getting that error after syncing today? > > > > > -- Jason Weisberger jbdu...@gmail.com