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From: Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] emerge world, USE flags and packages that aren't there
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 02:51:41
Message-Id: 4D438056.5020807@wht.com.au
1 Hi all,
2 I've got a PC that I use as a media computer, music, videos etc. I
3 haven't updated it in ages so decided now is the time to give it a go. I
4 issue the command, and subsequently get:
5
6 ***************************
7
8 harold ~# emerge --pretend -NuD world
9
10 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
11
12 Calculating dependencies... done!
13
14 emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy
15 "dev-vcs/subversion[-dso,perl]".
16 !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request:
17 - dev-vcs/subversion-1.6.15 (Change USE: -dso)
18 (dependency required by "dev-vcs/git-1.7.4_rc3" [ebuild])
19 (dependency required by "sys-devel/gettext-0.18.1.1-r1" [ebuild])
20 (dependency required by "dev-libs/popt-1.16-r1" [ebuild])
21 (dependency required by "dev-util/pkgconfig-0.25-r2" [ebuild])
22 (dependency required by "dev-lang/python-3.1.3" [ebuild])
23 (dependency required by "app-admin/python-updater-0.8" [installed])
24
25 ***************************
26
27 Well, it's a media computer so subversion shouldn't be there - I think
28 it's a leftover from a previous task for this machine. So I now issue
29 the command, and once again get:
30
31 ***************************
32
33 harold ~ # emerge -C subversion
34 * This action can remove important packages! In order to be safer, use
35 * `emerge -pv --depclean <atom>` to check for reverse dependencies before
36 * removing packages.
37
38 --- Couldn't find 'null/subversion' to unmerge.
39
40 >>> No packages selected for removal by unmerge
41 harold ~ #
42
43 ***************************
44
45 So, I'm now confused. I'm not a "Portage rocket scientist", but my
46 reading of this is that subversion needs some flags set, but subversion
47 isn't there!!!! Is this correct? Any ideas as to how I can get myself
48 out of this pickle?
49
50 Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
51
52 Andrew

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world, USE flags and packages that aren't there Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world, USE flags and packages that aren't there Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>