Hello, Mark. On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 12:11:02 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 11:09 AM Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: > <SNIP> > > (dependency required by "dev-vcs/bzr-2.7.0::gentoo" [installed]) > > (dependency required by "@selected" [set]) > > (dependency required by "@world" [argument])
> So I'm totally guessing here but as you have no other responses yet: > I'd start near the 'top', which of course is near the bottom. > What is 'bzr'? > https://packages.gentoo.org/categories/dev-vcs It is (or was) the version control system bazaar. It was a competitor for mercurial and git, but just wasn't quite as good. It was poorly documented, too (like git still is). It became unmaintained maybe three or four years ago. And it was written in python. > I do not see 'bzr' on this page. Is it something left over in your world > file, or just installed by some other app and no longer used, or moved to > some other package category? I used to use bazaar until the Emacs project converted to git. It's time I expunged it altogether. > If you don't know what it is and think you don't need it then if it were me > I'd consider just removing it and letting emerge @world figure out how to > proceed. > And all of that is just a guess. No Gentoo available right now to delve > further. > Best of luck, Thanks! > Mark -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
