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From: David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 15:49:19
Message-Id: 20061224104449.7facea76@osage.osagesoftware.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs. by Dale
1 On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 09:02:24 -0600
2 Dale wrote:
3
4 > Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
5 > > On Sunday 24 December 2006 15:33, Dale wrote:
6 > >
7 > >
8 > >> OK. Now I get this for mindi-1.11. One version has something
9 > >> missing and the other fails to compile. Wonder why this is masked?
10 > >> [cut]
11 > >>
12 > >
13 > > Are you trying to install mindi by itself or as part of an "emerge
14 > > mondo-rescue"? Seems like some dependency is missing...
15 > >
16 > >
17 > >> Anybody know what newt.h is? Looks like it needs it for something.
18 > >>
19 > >
20 > > * dev-libs/newt
21 > > Available versions: 0.50.35-r2 ~0.50.35-r3 ~0.50.35-r4 0.51.6
22 > > 0.51.6-r1 ~0.51.6-r2 ~0.52.2
23 > > Homepage: http://www.redhat.com/
24 > > Description: Redhat's Newt windowing toolkit
25 > > development files
26 > >
27 > > mondo-rescue does depend upon newt, but mindi doesn't (I'd say
28 > > that's probably a bug, but otoh I think mindi alone is rather
29 > > useless).
30 >
31 > Here's the funny part. I figured out that that file is in the package
32 > newt, who would have thunk that. LOL Anyway, I emerge -1 it then
33 > when I tell it to start emerging mondorescue again, it skips the
34 > package mindi completely.
35 >
36 > Since I have no clue what this may break, I went back and emerge -1
37 > mindi just in case. It worked this time, since newt was there. May
38 > be a bug too. Now back to mondorescue.
39
40 Sounds like the ebuild needs to include newt as a dependency!
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