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# emerge -uDtav1k portage
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These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[nomerge ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.8.3 [2.1.6.4] USE="-python3%"
[nomerge ] dev-lang/python-2.6.5-r3 [2.4.4-r14, 2.5.2-r7]
USE="berkdb gdbm ipv6 ncurses readline ssl threads (wide-unicode) xml
-build -doc -examples -sqlite -tk -wininst"
[nomerge ] app-admin/eselect-python-20100321
[nomerge ] sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-r2 [4.1.2] USE="mudflap nptl openmp
(-altivec) -bootstrap -build -doc (-fixed-point) -fortran -gcj -graphite
-gtk (-hardened) (-libffi) (-multilib) -multislot (-n32) (-n64) -nls
-nocxx -objc -objc++ -objc-gc -test -vanilla"
[ebuild U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.11.2 [2.6.1] USE="-gd% -vanilla%"
[ebuild NS ] sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-r2 [4.1.2] USE="mudflap nptl
openmp (-altivec) -bootstrap -build -doc (-fixed-point) -fortran -gcj
-graphite -gtk (-hardened) (-libffi) (-multilib) -multislot (-n32) (-n64)
-nls -nocxx -objc -objc++ -objc-gc -test -vanilla"
* Error: circular dependencies:
('ebuild', '/', 'sys-libs/glibc-2.11.2', 'merge') depends on
('ebuild', '/', 'sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-r2', 'merge') (hard)
('ebuild', '/', 'sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-r2', 'merge') depends on
('ebuild', '/', 'sys-libs/glibc-2.11.2', 'merge') (hard)
* Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily
* disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies.
--
Aj.
