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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/db & dev-lang/php dependency problem...
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:48:24
Message-Id: 200911041147.42134.wonko@wonkology.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/db & dev-lang/php dependency problem... by Jarry
1 Jarry writes:
2
3 > # emerge --depclean
4 [...]
5 > * In order to avoid breakage of link level dependencies, one or more
6 > * packages will not be removed. This can be solved by rebuilding the
7 > * packages that pulled them in.
8 > *
9 > * sys-libs/db-4.6.21_p4 pulled in by:
10 > * dev-lang/php-5.2.10
11 > *
12 [...]
13 > Then I tried "emerge --oneshot dev-lang/php" (once in the past
14 > I had such a problem and this helped) and after that I repeated
15 > "emerge --depclean", again with the same output-message.
16 > I repeated it a few times, still the same. So what can I do more
17 > to fix it?
18
19 I just posted a message ("emerge --depclean does not remove due to link
20 level dependencies") due to similar issues. My guess is that php links to
21 some sys-libs/db library, even if db is not a dependency to php. You can
22 try to remove db (use quickpkg before), and rebuild php.
23
24 Wonko

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[gentoo-user] Re: sys-libs/db & dev-lang/php dependency problem... Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@×××××××.net>