pango could be built without cairo support, the configure script should have checked if pango was built with cairo support.
Tamer Am 13.08.2010 19:28, schrieb Bill Longman: > On 08/13/2010 08:22 AM, Tamer Higazi wrote: >> As you told me I merged "lafilefixer" and ran lafilefixer --justfixit >> >> then I executed revdep-rebuild which wants to remerge a huge amout of >> packages who because "libpangocairo-1.0.so.0" was missing, or couldn't >> be linked at the end, revdep-rebuild wants to emerge a package called >> "eel" which is masked: >> >> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "gnome-base/eel" have been masked. >> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your >> request: >> - gnome-base/eel-2.24.1 (masked by: package.mask) >> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: >> # Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> (12 Jul 2010) >> # Masked for removal in 30 days. >> # No longer developed by upstream, fails with forced as-needed (bug #277169), >> # does not compile against gnome-desktop-2.30 (bug #311563). >> >> but I want to upgrade my system, and love to solve this Pango Cairo >> problem.... >> >> if you have anymore ideas, I would thank you. > Do you know about the "-t" option for emerge? It shows you which package > is responsible for "pulling in" another package. > > You might also want to try "euse -I cairo" which will tell you which > packages are affected by the cairo use flag. > > Your "emerge --info" shows that you do have cairo turned on, but as Alan > states, you should show "emerge -pv pango" or "emerge -pv cairo" (or > whatever package you're trying to fix). Pango doesn't has a specific > "cairo" use flag so you may need to recompile pango's dependencies. > > Basically, what you're trying to do is step back from the package that's > giving you the trouble, and compile the packages that your problematic > package needs to function. Obviously, this is a geometric expansion to > some extent, but revdep-rebuild is there to help you solve the puzzle. > > Also, qdepends is really handy. >
