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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] infinite battle between emerge --depclean and revdep-rebuild
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 09:10:25
Message-Id: 7573e9640607140142n5167d6f1mcacd4a0dd0709a2b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] infinite battle between emerge --depclean and revdep-rebuild by Allan Gottlieb
1 On 7/13/06, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
2 > ajglap gottlieb # emerge --ask --depclean; revdep-rebuild --pretend
3
4 Looks like a circular dependancy between gst-plugins-alsa and
5 gst-plugins. Circular dependancies are not handled well in portage.
6
7 > *** WARNING *** --depclean is known to be broken. It is highly recommended
8 > [rest of warning snipped]
9
10 Did you read the rest of the warning??? It gives you the solution:
11
12 emerge --noreplace gst-plugins
13
14 -Richard
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