Re: [gentoo-science] sage-scripts' dependencies

[Christopher Schwan]

Hi,

On Monday 05 July 2010 19:00:15 Steven Trogdon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I encountered the following when making a fresh install of sage (~136
> packages) within a 32bit chroot. Emerge of sage terminated because of the
> following line
>
> 	dosym $(which gp) "${SAGE_LOCAL}"/bin/sage_pari || die
>
> in the sage-scripts ebuild. In emerging sage, sage-scripts gets pulled in
> before pari and thus the failure. I suppose it would be awkward to have
> sage-scripts depend on pari when only a symlink is created? This can be
> replicated if one has a working sage by removing pari and sage-scripts and
> either updating world  or re-emerging sage-core. Here, sage-scripts gets
> pulled in before pari and the update/emerge fails.

Thats defintely a bug - I am currently testing if the link is actually needed.

>
> Steve

Christopher