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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Output / End User Experience
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:06:12
Message-Id: 4FFB7FC8.6030701@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Output / End User Experience by Zac Medico
1 On 07/09/2012 05:58 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > On 07/09/2012 05:42 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
3 >> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
4 >>> I'll test it out on a fresh install, but that will take a number of
5 >>> hours
6 >>
7 >> If I install chromium first, I get the following messages when I try
8 >> to install kde-meta:
9 >> The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
10 >> #required by dev-db/virtuoso-server-6.1.4-r1, required by
11 >> dev-libs/soprano-2.7.6[virtuoso], required by
12 >> app-office/akonadi-server-1.7.2,
13 >> required by kde-base/kdepim-runtime-4.8.3-r2, required by
14 >> kde-base/kdepim-meta-4.8.3, required by
15 >> kde-base/kde-meta-4.8.3[semantic-desktop], required by kde-meta (argument)
16 >> =sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.1-r2 minizip
17 >> #required by x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.8.2[gstreamer], required by
18 >> kde-base/kdebase-menu-icons-4.8.3, required by
19 >> kde-base/kdebase-runtime-meta-4.8.3, required by
20 >> kde-base/kdebase-startkde-4.8.3, required by kde-base/kdebase-meta-4.8.3,
21 >> required by kde-base/kde-meta-4.8.3, required by kde-meta (argument)
22 >> =dev-libs/libxml2-2.8.0_rc1 -icu
23 >>
24 >> You'll note that in this case there is nothing to suggest simply
25 >> enabling icu for qt-webkit.
26 >>
27 >> If I emerge kde-meta first then I get the following when I try to
28 >> emerge chromium:
29 >> The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
30 >> #required by www-client/chromium-20.0.1132.43, required by
31 >> chromium (argument)
32 >> =dev-libs/libxml2-2.8.0_rc1 icu
33 >>
34 >> Then if I set the icu use flag on libxml2 it works. Apparently it
35 >> doesn't realize that I'm about to break qt-webkit. Portage doesn't
36 >> check use dependencies on existing packages when you go to rebuild
37 >> something?
38 >
39 > Not unless the --complete-graph option is enabled. What I'd like to do
40 > is to automatically enable --complete-graph mode whenever the USE of an
41 > installed package would change. It would be like that
42 > --complete-graph-if-new-ver option which is already enabled by default,
43 > but it would apply to USE instead of versions.
44
45 Bug filed:
46
47 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425558
48
49 --
50 Thanks,
51 Zac

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