On Sunday 27 February 2005 22:53, Hamie wrote:
> OK. Frustrated debian user here... Maybe I should go back... Anyway...
>
> What am I doing wrong? I THOUGHT that one of the things that portage
> would do for me is to make sure dependencies are taken care of... Yet
> this seems to be worse than the rpm hell I used to experience with
> redhat... emerge seems to get some of the pre-req's, but not all of them.

It should, and it usually does...

> Currently I'm trying to get dvdrip on there... But it's complaining that
> gtk isn't available.. Try to emerge gtk+ and it complains that it needs
> an Xft Pango backend... ARRGGHH!!!
>
> What am I missing?

Don't know.  It works for most of us.  Maybe you explicitly disallowed some 
packages with your USE flags ? Post the contents of your /etc/make.conf

Maarten

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