On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 07:30:45PM +0100, antlists wrote:
> I'm trying to emerge wine, and it's come up with this. It insisted on adding
> abi_x86_32 or whatever it is to loads of things, but it's now blowing up
> with this circular dependency. If I try and install one with "use =
> -theother" it won't go ...

I recently discovered this wiki page, maybe the steps listed there will
help:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Sam/Portage_help/Circular_dependencies#harfbuzz_and_freetype

> 
> Looking on the web, everybody seems to be recommending those approaches but
> they're not working. It does say circular dependencies are hard to fix. The
> only thing I haven't got at the moment is ~amd. Is that likely to help?

Accepting the ~amd64 keyword would require extra steps due to another
circular dependency (also on the linked page but farther down). Not that
it would help in this case because freetype and harfbuzz do depend on
each other currently

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