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On Sunday 14 February 2010 22:10:05 Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Mostly in support of (I think) KDE I have poppler installed which |
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> seems to cause eix-test-obsolete a little indigestion. It sees |
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> virtual/poppler as installed but says they are not in the database. |
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> Do I have a problem here (eix-test-obsolete itself or my use of it, |
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> use flags, some sort of database problem, etc.) or is this some sort |
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> of ebuild problem that will likely get worked out over the next few |
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> weeks? |
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I saw this a few days ago. |
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virtual/poppler is not in portage anymore. We now just have regular poppler, |
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xpdf, et al. |
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Just remove poppler from world if you have it there - you shouldn't, it's a |
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lib and should be pulled in by everything that DEPENDs on it. |
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Latest masked portage deals with this kind of nonsense nicely. If you use an |
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old portage, you may have to unmerge what you have and remerge the real one. |
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FWIW, poppler is one of those packages seemingly run by an insane idiot. Every |
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new minor point version seems to block the one before it, implying API/ABI |
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breaks across minor versions. Which is thick beyond belief. It's a problematic |
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package and one that I seemed to umerge/merge often in the pre-portage-2.2 |
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days |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |