Re: [gentoo-user] Help installing skype

2016-02-26 Thread Mick
On Thursday 25 Feb 2016 13:23:52 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 25/02/2016 03:05, allan gottlieb wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 24 2016, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> A finite subset of this package.use file will let skype install, > >> followed of course by > >> emerge skype. > >> > >> I arrived at this list the

Re: [gentoo-user] Help installing skype

2016-02-25 Thread allan gottlieb
Both david and alan suggested global icu use flag. Specifically On Thu, Feb 25 2016, David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, allan gottlieb wrote: > [..] >>dev-libs/libxml2:2 >> >> (dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.2-r4:2/2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled >> in by >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Help installing skype

2016-02-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 25/02/2016 03:05, allan gottlieb wrote: On Wed, Feb 24 2016, Alan McKinnon wrote: A finite subset of this package.use file will let skype install, followed of course by emerge skype. I arrived at this list the long hard way, repeatedly running emerge and adding stuffs still portage stopped

Re: [gentoo-user] Help installing skype

2016-02-25 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, allan gottlieb wrote: [..] >dev-libs/libxml2:2 > > (dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.2-r4:2/2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled > in by > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Help installing skype

2016-02-24 Thread allan gottlieb
On Wed, Feb 24 2016, Alan McKinnon wrote: > A finite subset of this package.use file will let skype install, > followed of course by > emerge skype. > > I arrived at this list the long hard way, repeatedly running emerge and > adding stuffs still portage stopped it's whinging. The worst part is

Re: [gentoo-user] Help installing skype

2016-02-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I agree with Ralf, a small VM with Windows or an Ubuntu/Mint/whatever > appliance solely for use with skype is probably a better use of your > time. It's a huge PITA to keep abi_x86_32 under control and not bloat,

Re: [gentoo-user] Help installing skype

2016-02-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
A finite subset of this package.use file will let skype install, followed of course by emerge skype. I arrived at this list the long hard way, repeatedly running emerge and adding stuffs still portage stopped it's whinging. The worst part is Qt and X11 as skype is a Qt app and no longer bundles a

Re: [gentoo-user] Help installing skype

2016-02-24 Thread allan gottlieb
On Wed, Feb 24 2016, Ralf wrote: > Hi, > > I hate those tons of abi_x86_32 packages as well. > > This is also not solving your slot conflict, but why not: > - Use a Windows VM for Skype > - Use a small Linux VM for Skype (e.g. Debian) > and just redirect your webcam. > > In this way, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Help installing skype

2016-02-24 Thread Ralf
Hi, I hate those tons of abi_x86_32 packages as well. This is also not solving your slot conflict, but why not: - Use a Windows VM for Skype - Use a small Linux VM for Skype (e.g. Debian) and just redirect your webcam. In this way, you don't mess up your system with 32 bit libraries. And,

Re: [gentoo-user] Help installing skype

2016-02-24 Thread Anton Shumskyi
Hi=) Can't really help with 32bit conflicts, I gave up on it since other unofficial packages got broken. But you can try workaround with disabled abi_x86_32, put skype ebuild to your local overlay and remove all abi_x86_32 related in it. And it still can fail=) Or you can give a try to

[gentoo-user] Help installing skype

2016-02-24 Thread allan gottlieb
Unfortunately (see the end for the reason) I need to run skype. This seems to be a mess to build. I already added it to package.accept_keywords added about 100 entries to package.use (for abi_x86_32) accepted the license Now I have a slot conflict. Below the abbreviated output is the