On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 5:08 AM Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: > > 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!
Hey, I got lucky! Not bad for not even having a Gentoo machine to double check on. Glad it worked out. I think the lesson here is start at the bottom and work up toward the problem. That first line is just that in the weeds computer stuff. Cheers, Mark
