Re: [gentoo-user] Kicad and complications from hdf5 and vtk USE flags. Not package specific tho.

[Miles Malone]

Hi Dale,

Try removing the vtk useflag from opencascade.  Also, add verbose to
your emerge arguments and it may show you the full RDEPEND

Regards,

Miles

On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 at 11:07, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> I seem to have ran into a road block.  To get a clean path for emerge
> recently, I had to unmerge a few packages.  I removed Kicad, libreoffice
> and a few others.  Some of them I could add back with no problem.  I
> just emerged them and off it went.  I'm having trouble with libreoffice
> but I think it is a compile failure so I may just go back to a older
> version.  The one I can't get around is Kicad.  When I run emerge the
> first time, I get this:
>
>
> root@fireball / # emerge -auDN world
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
> The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
>  (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
> # required by sci-libs/vtk-9.0.3-r4::gentoo
> # required by sci-libs/opencascade-7.5.2-r5::gentoo[vtk]
> # required by sci-electronics/kicad-5.1.12-r2::gentoo
> # required by sci-electronics/kicad-symbols-5.1.12::gentoo
> # required by sci-electronics/kicad-meta-5.1.12::gentoo
> # required by @selected
> # required by @world (argument)
> =sci-libs/hdf5-1.10.5-r1 -mpi
> #
> >=sci-libs/vtk-9.0.3-r4 mpi
>
> Would you like to add these changes to your config files? [Yes/No] n
> root@fireball / #
>
>
> I do my file edits manually so I go make the change it wants and try
> again with the same command.
>
>
> root@fireball / # emerge -auDN world
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
> The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
>  (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
> # required by sci-libs/vtk-9.0.3-r4::gentoo
> # required by sci-libs/opencascade-7.5.2-r5::gentoo[vtk]
> # required by sci-electronics/kicad-5.1.12-r2::gentoo
> # required by sci-electronics/kicad-symbols-5.1.12::gentoo
> # required by sci-electronics/kicad-meta-5.1.12::gentoo
> # required by @selected
> # required by @world (argument)
> =sci-libs/hdf5-1.10.5-r1 mpi
> #
> >=sci-libs/vtk-9.0.3-r4 -mpi
>
> Would you like to add these changes to your config files? [Yes/No] n
> root@fireball / #
>
>
> Each time it just reverses the recommended settings.  I've been dealing
> with this for a couple days now.  I've tried changing settings on the
> packages that are pulling it in and anything else I can think of but so
> far, this is as close I've got to it being able to update.
>
> Does someone have their emerge decoder ring handy?  I just can't figure
> out what changes to make to get past this.  Once this is done, I'll
> start hammering on libreoffice.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>