Re: [gentoo-dev] --deep oddity

[Stuart Bouyer]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:51:58 +0000
MAL <mal@×××××××.com> wrote:

> Hi, could someone help me better understand why --deep does the things
> it does :)
>
> I have gkrellm-2.1.5 installed, and an emerge -pu --deep world says:
>
>
> [ebuild    UD] app-admin/gkrellm-1.2.13 [2.1.5]
>
> (after others)
>
>
> Why does this happen?  Does gkrellm 1 have a higher 'priority' than 2
> or something?
>

My guess is that one of the ebuilds after gkrellm-1.2.13 had gkrellm 1
as a dependancy and as you don't meet that dependancy it needs to emerge
gkrellm1. Probably one of the later ebuilds given by emerge -up --deep
world is a gkrellm plugin that hasn't been ported to gkrellm2 yet.
For example on my system

emerge -p gkrellmouse

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild    UD] app-admin/gkrellm-1.2.13 [2.1.5] 
[ebuild  N   ] x11-plugins/gkrellmouse-0.0.2  

You best option here would be to unmerge the ebuild that needs gkrellm1.

On my system I emerged transcode a month or so ago, and recently emerged
mpegtools, which updated avifile to 0.7.29

However as transcode has a dependancy of avifile between 0.7.4 and
0.7.22, emerge -up --deep world wants to downgrade to avifile-0.7.15 to
meet the depndancies of transcode.

In this case there isn't a bug in portage, the problem lies in some
packages installed on your computer having outdated dependancies 

Hope this straightens things out for you

Stu

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