[gentoo-amd64] Re: dev-db/libdbi-0.8.3 failed

[Duncan]

Paul Stear posted on Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:06:26 +0100 as excerpted:

> syslog-ng wants to update libdbi but it keeps failing

I run syslog-ng here and don't have libdbi merged at all.  USE flags, 
maybe?  Here's mine (from an emerge --pretend --verbose):

"caps pcre ssl -hardened -ipv6 (-selinux)
-spoof-source -sql -static -tcpd"

Doing an esearch on libdbi, I get this as its description:

libdbi implements a database-independent abstraction
layer in C, similar to the DBI/DBD layer in Perl.

The keyword there is "database".  Based on that and the USE flags,
I'd assume syslog-ng pulling in libdbi based on the sql flag.  Let's 
see... grepping the ebuild (v 3.0.4) for sql yields this among other 
lines:

        sql? ( >=dev-db/libdbi-0.8.3 )"

So I'm correct.

Is there any particular reason you are building syslog-ng with sql 
support? If you're using that feature, turning off the USE flag probably 
isn't something you want to do, but it's a simple enough work-around if 
you're not using the feature anyway.

If you do turn it off, an emerge --depclean might be worth running, to 
see if libdbi is used by anything else.  Of course, if you're used to 
keeping your system reasonably cruft-free already, you'll likely already 
be running routine depcleans, and if you aren't, depclean may well want 
to remove a whole slew of stuff, some of which you might not want removed 
even if it's not a dependency of something in your world file yet, which 
is of course why you're supposed to use either --ask or --pretend to see 
what portage is going to do, before you actually allow it to do it.

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