on Thursday 02/15/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Wednesday 14 February 2007 23:53:10 John covici wrote: > > > In such a case you should just attach it as a compressed file. But > > > applying the patch does seem like a good idea. It should be released > > > later this week. > > > > OK, with the patch applied, here is the output -- I am a bit confused > > as to which use flags to change so as to fix this one if that is > > possible. > [SNIP] > > Calculating dependencies ..... ........ done! > > !!! Error: circular dependencies: > > > > ('ebuild', '/', 'app-doc/doxygen-1.4.7', 'merge') depends on > > ('ebuild', '/', 'app-text/ghostscript-gpl-8.54', 'merge') (hard) > > ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-3.3.6-r4', 'merge') (hard) > > ('ebuild', '/', 'virtual/ghostscript-0', 'merge') (hard) > > ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-apps/dbus-1.0.2', 'merge') depends on > > ('ebuild', '/', 'app-doc/doxygen-1.4.7', 'merge') (hard) > > ('ebuild', '/', 'net-print/cups-1.2.6', 'merge') depends on > > ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-apps/dbus-1.0.2', 'merge') (hard) > > ('ebuild', '/', 'virtual/ghostscript-0', 'merge') depends on > > ('ebuild', '/', 'app-text/ghostscript-gpl-8.54', 'merge') (medium) > > ('ebuild', '/', 'net-print/cups-1.2.6', 'merge') (soft) > > ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-3.3.6-r4', 'merge') depends on > > ('ebuild', '/', 'net-print/cups-1.2.6', 'merge') (hard) > > ('ebuild', '/', 'app-text/ghostscript-gpl-8.54', 'merge') depends on > > ('ebuild', '/', 'net-print/cups-1.2.6', 'merge') (hard) > > Boy am I glad I don't have to look at this without the patch applied.. ;) > It's > kind of hard to verify but I think adding the following to package.use would > suffice... > > sys-apps/dbus -doc > app-text/ghostscript-gpl -cups > > If that doesn't suffice disabling the cups and dbus use flags for more of > those packages are the key to get this emerged. Once it's emerged you can > change the use flags back and remerge with --newuse... > > -- > Bo Andresen
OK, that did the trick, now I will have to look at the use flags for all of these (it now wants 230 packages) because I have been getting some strange ones which I may want to change. Thanks all for your help. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list