Re: [gentoo-user] A gentoo kind of dependency heck

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On 6/11/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Sunday 11 June 2006 23:32, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> That sounds interesting, but I have no idea what to do about it.   I think
> once upon a time, when I was first installing gentoo, I opted for KDE.  I
> haven't done a thing about it since KDE 3.2.  Now all of a sudden I've got
> > this conflict.
>
> What do I need to change?

And --tree to the command to see what's pulling things in. Post command with
the output here.

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Bo Andresen

--tree does not seem to do much.  Here's what I get with an "emerge -aDvu" and an "equery depends kdepim":

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] kde # emerge -aDvu --tree world

These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:

Calculating world dependencies
!!! Packages for the following atoms are either all
!!! masked or don't exist:
games-roguelike/noegnud-nethack games-roguelike/nethack

 ...done!
[blocks B     ] =kde-base/libkcal-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim-3.5.2-r2)
[blocks B     ] =kde-base/libkdenetwork-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim-3.5.2-r2)
[blocks B     ] =kde-base/certmanager-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim-3.5.2-r2)
[blocks B     ] =kde-base/ktnef-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim-3.5.2-r2)
[blocks B     ] =kde-base/libkdepim-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim-3.5.2-r2)
[blocks B     ] =kde-base/kalarm-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim-3.5.2-r2)
[blocks B     ] =kde-base/libkpimidentities-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim-3.5.2-r2)
[blocks B     ] =kde-base/libkmime-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim-3.5.2-r2)
[blocks B     ] =kde-base/libkpgp-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim-3.5.2-r2)
[nomerge      ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-esd-0.8.11
[ebuild  N    ]   kde-base/kdepim-3.5.2-r2  +arts +crypt -debug -gnokii -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -pda -xinerama 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB

!!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be installed
!!!        on the same system.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde # equery depends kde-base/kdepim-3.5.2-r2
[ Searching for packages depending on kde-base/kdepim-3.5.2-r2... ]
kde-base/kde-3.5.2
kde-base/kdeaddons-3.5.2-r1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde #

The only ebuild I can see that I rely on directly is kalarm.  All the others must
be dependencies.  And I got in this mess because kalarm was broken.

Since I last wrote, I found I can get emerge to shut up by adding kdepim to
packages.provided.  Which means it's not really there, but we're lying about it.

It lets me do emerges again, but I'd like to stop lying.

++ kevin

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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD