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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and python needed by scribus.
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:52:53
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0909090552h62d413e6m3aad5bcae0727a7f@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and python needed by scribus. by Dale
1 On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Mark Knecht wrote:
3 >> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >>
5 >>> Hi folks,
6 >>>
7 >>> Can someone tell me what this means?
8 >>>
9 >>> root@smoker / # emerge -p --depclean
10 >>>
11 >>>  * Always study the list of packages to be cleaned for any obvious
12 >>>  * mistakes. Packages that are part of the world set will always
13 >>>  * be kept.  They can be manually added to this set with
14 >>>  * `emerge --noreplace <atom>`.  Packages that are listed in
15 >>>  * package.provided (see portage(5)) will be removed by
16 >>>  * depclean, even if they are part of the world set.
17 >>>  *
18 >>>  * As a safety measure, depclean will not remove any packages
19 >>>  * unless *all* required dependencies have been resolved.  As a
20 >>>  * consequence, it is often necessary to run `emerge --update
21 >>>  * --newuse --deep @system @world` prior to depclean.
22 >>>
23 >>> Calculating dependencies... done!
24 >>>
25 >>>>>> Checking for lib consumers...
26 >>>>>> Assigning files to packages...
27 >>>>>>
28 >>>  * In order to avoid breakage of link level dependencies, one or more
29 >>>  * packages will not be removed. This can be solved by rebuilding the
30 >>>  * packages that pulled them in.
31 >>>  *
32 >>>  *   dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r3 pulled in by:
33 >>>  *     app-office/scribus-1.3.3.11
34 >>>  *
35 >>>
36 >>>>>> Adding lib providers to graph...
37 >>>>>>
38 >>>  \
39 >>> Calculating dependencies... done!
40 >>>
41 >>>
42 >>> I have re-compiled scribus about three times now.  I have also ran
43 >>> python-updater a few times and it just keeps rebuilding scribus and
44 >>> boost in a endless loop.  What am I missing here?
45 >>>
46 >>> Thanks.
47 >>>
48 >>> Dale
49 >>>
50 >>> :-)  :-)
51 >>>
52 >>>
53 >>>
54 >>
55 >> Possibly scribus isn't compatible with python-2.6? The few times I've
56 >> run into this with depclean I've removed the app (scribus in this
57 >> case) cleaned up the machine with depclean and revdep-rebuild, and
58 >> then reinstalled the app from scratch. If it tries to pull in
59 >> phython-2.5 then you just have to make a choice whether you want it or
60 >> not. (Or look for a mased ebuild, etc.
61 >>
62 >> - Mark
63 >>
64 >>
65 >>
66 >
67 > LOL  Since I would rather try to remove Scribus than python, I'll remove
68 > Scribus, do some cleaning, then reinstall and see what happens.  We all
69 > know what could happen if I remove python that portage is using.  o_O
70 >
71 > I'll report back if it continues after all this.  Thanks to both Alan
72 > and Mark on this one.  I was getting drunk going around in circles with
73 > this.
74 >
75 > Dale
76 >
77 > :-)  :-)
78 >
79 >
80
81 I assume you've installed python-2.6 as part of emerge @system or
82 @world and then run python-updater? That process has worked on my
83 machines but I don't use too many office apps.
84
85 Good luck!
86
87 Cheers,
88 Mark

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