Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] pango, freetype, and harfbuzz: circular dependencies?
Date:	Sat, 17 Jul 2021 20:13:08
Message-Id:	`20210717211255.2dfbf8f8@digimed.co.uk`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] pango, freetype, and harfbuzz: circular dependencies? by Matthias Hanft

1	On Sat, 17 Jul 2021 18:19:46 +0200, Matthias Hanft wrote:
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3	> doing the weekly "emerge --sync" and "emerge -aDuv @world", portage
4	> suddenly asks me to set the "harfbuzz" USE flag for "freetype".
5	[snip]
6	> Of course, I just could do that, but "equery u freetype" tells me for
7	> "harfbuzz": "WARNING: may trigger circular dependencies!"
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9	The operative word here is "may". Try setting it, you may well find that
10	the emerge proceeds with no problems, it did on the three systems I had
11	to do it on.
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13	No point worrying about a problem that may not exist.
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17	Neil Bothwick
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19	Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats
20	troublesome. - Isaac Asimov