Hi Mark,

Am Donnerstag, 5. Februar 2004 14:20 schrieb Mark Knecht:
> On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 00:47, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
> > > Wizard root # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p xine-lib xine-dvdnav
> > > xine-ui
> > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> > > Calculating dependencies ...done!
> > > [ebuild   R   ] media-libs/xine-lib-1_rc3-r1
> > > [ebuild  N    ] media-libs/xine-lib-0.9.13-r3
> > > [ebuild   R   ] media-plugins/xine-dvdnav-0.9.13
> > > [ebuild   R   ] media-video/xine-ui-0.9.23
> > > Wizard root #

> > afaik the problem is, that you are emerging xine-dvdnav aside with the
> > latest xine-lib. xine-lib > 1 doesn't need xine-dvdnav for navigating
> > DVDs iirc. I believe, that xine-lib-0.9.13 is emerged as a dependancy
> > from xine-dvdnav. Try without it. Works for me.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Michael
>
> Michael,
>    Thanks for writing back. Yes, you are right about that, and I'm sorry
> I didn't communicate that earlier. However, my issue was that if I have
> xine-dvdnav installed for any reason (as I do) and portage tries to do
> an update, then isn't portage going to break my xine-lib installation?
> (Please note that dvdnav is causing a NEW xine-lib installation to
> happen over an existing one...)
> Wizard root # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p xine-lib xine-dvdnav
> xine-ui
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild   R   ] media-libs/xine-lib-1_rc3-r1
> [ebuild  N    ] media-libs/xine-lib-0.9.13-r3
> [ebuild   R   ] media-plugins/xine-dvdnav-0.9.13
> [ebuild   R   ] media-video/xine-ui-0.9.23

Ah, I overlooked the R with xine-dvdnav. It is already installed.

> Wizard root # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p xine-lib  xine-ui
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild   R   ] media-libs/xine-lib-1_rc3-r1
> [ebuild   R   ] media-video/xine-ui-0.9.23
> Wizard root #
> In the example above, since I have xinedvdnav installed, isn't portage
> going to break my xine-lib-1_rc3 installation by writing over it, or
> changing links?

I'm pretty shure, things will break after emerging 
media-libs/xine-lib-0.9.13-r3 in your case...

> This all just looks like it's a problem waiting to happen.

You're right with that, I think.

> Is there an emerge or etcat command (or any othre program) that will
> tell me what packages I have installed that depend on xine-dvdnav, so I
> can safely uninstall it?

Yes, try etcat -d xine-dvdnav and/or qpkg -q -v -I xine-dvdnav.

> Thanks,
> Mark

Michael


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