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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild dependency logic - please explain it to me
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:56:24
Message-Id: 200901161354.30010.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ebuild dependency logic - please explain it to me by Helmut Jarausch
1 On Friday 16 January 2009 13:49:04 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I'm still struggling with the logic of dependencies in ebuild files
5 > e.g.
6 >
7 > kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r2.ebuild contains the line
8 > !avahi? ( !bindist? ( net-misc/mDNSResponder !kde-misc/kdnssd-avahi ) )
9 >
10 > This causes a dependency loop since I do have 'avahi' installed
11 > which blocks net-misc/mDNSResponder but other packages need avahi.
12
13 It may be installed, but is it in your USE?
14
15 The output of
16 eix -e kdelibs
17 would be useful here
18
19
20 >
21 > Why does kdelibs-3.5.10-r2 try to pull in net-misc/mDNSResponder
22 >
23 > This is with portage-2.2_rc22 .
24 >
25 > Many thanks for a hint,
26 > Helmut.
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31 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild dependency logic - please explain it to me Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>