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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem while doing `emerge --emptytree system
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:58:11
Message-Id: 42F5070C.9070608@asmallpond.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Problem while doing `emerge --emptytree system by Jason Castonguay
1 Jason Castonguay wrote:
2
3 >Hi listers.
4 >
5 >I'm in the process of installing gentoo for the first time and am now in
6 >the process of going from stage 2 to stage 3. I am trying to do
7 >
8 >emerge --emptytree system
9 >
10 >It seems to be fine until it gets to installing openssl (14 of 186 apps
11 >to be installed). The process stops and says that perl 5 is required.
12 >This is understandable, but I thought emerge was supposed to be "aware" of
13 >this sort of thing and install apps in the correct order. I did a
14 >
15 >
16
17 There is probably a circular dependancy here caused by USE flags.
18
19 You can try:
20
21 USE="minimal -*" emerge --deep --oneshot perl
22
23 You should then be able to run the emerge --emptytree system command
24 again. It will start over from the beginning, but there is no way to
25 avoid that right now...
26
27 -Richard
28
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