On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 10:50 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 19 October 2009 06:31:24 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Monday 19 October 2009 04:42:43 Dale wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > My light bulb is not working tonight. I just synced and checked for > > > > > > updates and ran into this little "issue": > > > > r...@smoker / # emerge -uvDNfa world > > > > > > > > These are the packages that would be fetched, in order: > > > > > > > > Calculating dependencies ... done! > > > > > > > > emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy > > > > ">=net-libs/libsoup-2.25.1:2.4[gnome]". > > > > !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: > > > > - net-libs/libsoup-2.26.3-r3 (Change USE: +gnome) > > > > (dependency required by "dev-libs/libgweather-2.26.2.1" [ebuild]) > > > > (dependency required by "gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.26.3" > > > > [ebuild]) > > > > (dependency required by "app-office/openoffice-3.1.1" [installed]) > > > > (dependency required by "@world" [argument]) > > > > > > > > r...@smoker / # > > > > > > It seems it wants me to turn on the gnome USE flag but I use KDE and > > > have more than enough gnome stuff pulled in already. Is there a "sane" > > > way around this? I know OOo is installed and the data server was pulled > > > in by something ages ago. I have KDE 3.5 and KDE 4 installed. > > > > If you don't use the gnome desktop (just some apps here and there), remove > > gnome from USE. OOo especially wants to pull in a load of stuff with that > > in place > > The way I read Dale, he already has no gnome in USE; portage is asking him to > add it to libsoup's USE flags, which, naturally, he's reluctant to do. > > I had the same thing come up the other day, and I haven't got round to fixing > it yet. > Try adding -gnome to the use flags rather than letting portage get confused.
BillK
