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From: Roy Wright <roy@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Circular dependencies when USE=gnome and emerging world
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:39:44
Message-Id: 48069C12.3070505@wright.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Circular dependencies when USE=gnome and emerging world by Justin Findlay
1 Justin Findlay wrote:
2 > On AD 2008 April 16 Wednesday 09:28:48 PM +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote:
3 >> When I do "emerge -DuvatN world", I get an error to the effect,
4 >> that there are circular dependencies. Please see below.
5 >>
6 >> I'd like to know, if anyone else ran into this problem and how it
7 >> got solved. At the end of the message, you'll also find emerge --info.
8 >>
9 > I'd try the merge world without setting USE="gnome" first, and then
10 > later enable it by putting gnome in your /etc/make.conf USE setting. If
11 > you want to be more clever about it/save some time, you can try to
12 > figure out the problematic packages and just temporarily disable gnome
13 > on them via /etc/portage/package.mask/, but that may not be much more
14 > efficient than the first option.
15
16 Also try globally disabling the doc use flag in your make.conf,
17 USE=-doc. I hit this problem the other day and googled this solution.
18
19 HTH,
20 Roy
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