On Sat, Feb 17 2018, John Blinka wrote: > Hi, all, > > A recent update demanded that I rebuild webkit-gtk-2.4.11-r200. > Unfortunately I cannot get this package to rebuild. > > In my experience, this particular version of webkit-gtk has always > been a very fragile build. I've put way too much time into wrestling > with it and I'd like to get rid of it. There's a newer version: > webkit-gtk-2.18.6, which builds with no problems. > > The only package on my system that needs webkit-gtk is gnucash. All > of the stable ebuilds for gnucash contain this line > >=net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.2:2 > And all of the versions of webkit-gtk in portage satisfy this condition.
I am in the same situation and I believe a number of other are as well. The old webkit-gtk is approaching end-of-life and the new gnucash that uses the new webkit-gtk is (they say) soon to become gentoo stable. NOTE. The new gnucash uses a new database format so you should back up your old database before updating gnucash (see the news item). I am waiting for the new gnucash to become stable (and will probably wait a little more). I back up the gnucash database daily. I would be quite put out if gnucash was unavailable for even a modest time period. What I do in the meantime is emerge --update --pretend @world and then manually emerge -1 all packages mentioned except webkit-gtk I do a similar procedure for emerge @preserved rebuild allan
