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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage: dependencies problem...
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:50:12
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0908111050x2092b1d6r499f77ebb9bdce58@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] portage: dependencies problem... by Jarry
1 On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Jarry<mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > today I did "emerge --full --update --deep --newuse world"
5 > and after that "emerge --depclean". I got these messages:
6 > ________________________________________________________
7 >
8 > Calculating dependencies... done!
9 >>>> Checking for lib consumers...
10 >>>> Assigning files to packages...
11 >  * In order to avoid breakage of link level dependencies, one or more
12 >  * packages will not be removed. This can be solved by rebuilding the
13 >  * packages that pulled them in.
14 >  *
15 >  *   dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r3 pulled in by:
16 >  *     sys-apps/file-4.23
17 >  *     sys-libs/cracklib-2.8.13
18 >  *
19 >>>> Adding lib providers to graph...        |
20 > Calculating dependencies... done!
21 >>>> No packages selected for removal by depclean
22 >>>> To see reverse dependencies, use --verbose
23 > Packages installed:   116
24 > Packages in world:    8
25 > Packages in system:   51
26 > Required packages:    116
27 > Number removed:       0
28 > _____________________________________________________
29 >
30 > I tried "revdep-rebuild", but it did not solve this problem.
31 > How can I solve it?
32 >
33 > Jarry
34 >
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40 >
41
42 Maybe
43
44 emerge -pv1DuN file cracklib
45
46 to rebuild them with more recent libraries and then --depclean to get
47 rid of old stuff that's not needed anymore?
48
49 Hope this helps,
50 Mark

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