Dale schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > > >> Programs That Depend On xmlto >> >> app-text/robodoc dev-util/mercurial sci-geosciences/gpsd >> sys-auth/libnss-pgsql doc media-gfx/k3d >> >> Which, if any of these programs do you have installed on your >> system? >> >> > > > I have none of those installed, but that k3d looks familiar. It is > not installed though. May have read about it somewhere. Is that > that 3D desktop thing? I did install that once but unmerged it ages > ago. > >
It is not *currently* installed, you mean. But xmlto remains installed as a dependency of the uninstalled package. Does it (xmlto) appear in the output of an emerge deplclean -p (don't forget the -p!!)? <snip> >> Runtime Dependencies xmlto-0.0.18 >> >> | app-shells/bash | app-text/docbook-xml-dtd4.2 | >= >> app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets - 1.62.0-r1 | dev-libs/libxslt >> | sys-apps/utillinux >> >> xmlto-0.0.17 >> >> | app-shells/bash | app-text/docbook-xml-dtd4.2 | >= >> app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets - 1.62.0-r1 | dev-libs/libxslt >> | sys-apps/utillinux >> >> I would suggest recompiling the two docbook dependencies, most >> notably docbook-xml-dtd, and seeing if that helps in any way. >> <snip> >> > > I did re-emerge the docbook things, several times I might add, no > workey, just more smoke. :( > > What would die if I unmerged it? Apparently nothing, since you don't have any applications installed that depend on it to work. > I don't want to remove it and then reboot or something and it blow > smoke at me. :/ I don't relish in reinstalling Gentoo. I would, > but I would rather not. First of all, a reinstall of Gentoo is very rarely necessary, and certainly not for a minor text application being uninstalled, no matter what depends on it. Even in a dire emergency, when almost eveyrthing seems to be broken, it's rarely *necessary* to reinstall, but it's a *choice* one might make to save work or time. But Gentoo can almost always be fixed /in situ/, without a full reinstall being needed. Second of all, you have checked everything you can check; apparently you don't need this application (nothing you do need depends on it), and it's causing you problems with its irrelevant self. Uninstall it and see what happens. It *should* be all right, but sometimes being a Gentoo user requires a leap of faith. > > So you will know, this comes up on occasion when I do a emerge -uv > world. I usually do a emerge --resume --skipfirst and it carries on. > It just seems to pop up on occasion and is getting under my skin. > This further suggests thaxt nothing depends on the application, so you're likely safe to just emerge -C it. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
