At Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:42:26 -0700 Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 7/13/06, Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ajglap gottlieb # emerge --ask --depclean; revdep-rebuild --pretend > > Looks like a circular dependancy between gst-plugins-alsa and > gst-plugins. Circular dependancies are not handled well in portage. > >> *** WARNING *** --depclean is known to be broken. It is highly recommended >> [rest of warning snipped] > > Did you read the rest of the warning??? It gives you the solution: > > emerge --noreplace gst-plugins I did read it, but obviously not with full understanding. That solution, which indeed does solve my problem, is correctly stated to place gst-plugins into the world file. But that is not what I though world was for. I though it was for applications that I use directly. I thought the --noreplace suggestion was for the case when --depclean wants to remove something you actually run. I foolishly hadn't realized that this advice emerge --noreplace <atom> was also to be used to break circular dependencies. Thanks for the enlightenment. allan -- [email protected] mailing list
