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]
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