On Sat, 17 Jul 2021 18:19:46 +0200, Matthias Hanft wrote:

> doing the weekly "emerge --sync" and "emerge -aDuv @world", portage
> suddenly asks me to set the "harfbuzz" USE flag for "freetype".
[snip]
> Of course, I just could do that, but "equery u freetype" tells me for
> "harfbuzz": "WARNING: may trigger circular dependencies!"

The operative word here is "may". Try setting it, you may well find that
the emerge proceeds with no problems, it did on the three systems I had
to do it on.

No point worrying about a problem that may not exist.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats
troublesome. - Isaac Asimov

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