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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] please explain this contradictory(?) emerge dependency
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:59:47
Message-Id: yu9bor5l3uq.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] please explain this contradictory(?) emerge dependency by Allan Gottlieb
1 On Sun, Dec 18 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
2
3 > I get dependency problems in my normal update world that I can't
4 > understand. The entire output is below.
5 >
6 > As far as I can tell gnome-2.32.1-r1 (which is installed) is requiring
7 > packages from gnome-3, which must be wrong. I don't see any such
8 > dependencies in the ebuild for gnome-2.32.1-r1 and there is an "official
9 > mask list" (which I am using) for those of us who want to
10 > delay installing gnome-3 for a while.
11 >
12 > My conclusion that gnome-2... is requiring gnome-3 packages (which I
13 > know is wrong) comes from two points in the output below.
14 >
15 > 1. The indenting of the --tree --verbose output seems to say this
16 > (e.g., the first two lines say gnome-2... depends on nautilus-3)
17 >
18 > 2. The comments related to mask changes at the bottom say
19 > evince-3... is required by gnome-2...
20 >
21 > Please help.
22 > thanks,
23 > allan
24
25 A new bug just appeared on bugs.gnome.org that may be related
26 #395173
27
28 allan