On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> Can someone tell me what this means? >>> >>> r...@smoker / # emerge -p --depclean >>> >>> * Always study the list of packages to be cleaned for any obvious >>> * mistakes. Packages that are part of the world set will always >>> * be kept. They can be manually added to this set with >>> * `emerge --noreplace <atom>`. Packages that are listed in >>> * package.provided (see portage(5)) will be removed by >>> * depclean, even if they are part of the world set. >>> * >>> * As a safety measure, depclean will not remove any packages >>> * unless *all* required dependencies have been resolved. As a >>> * consequence, it is often necessary to run `emerge --update >>> * --newuse --deep @system @world` prior to depclean. >>> >>> Calculating dependencies... done! >>> >>>>>> Checking for lib consumers... >>>>>> Assigning files to packages... >>>>>> >>> * In order to avoid breakage of link level dependencies, one or more >>> * packages will not be removed. This can be solved by rebuilding the >>> * packages that pulled them in. >>> * >>> * dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r3 pulled in by: >>> * app-office/scribus-1.3.3.11 >>> * >>> >>>>>> Adding lib providers to graph... >>>>>> >>> \ >>> Calculating dependencies... done! >>> >>> >>> I have re-compiled scribus about three times now. I have also ran >>> python-updater a few times and it just keeps rebuilding scribus and >>> boost in a endless loop. What am I missing here? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Dale >>> >>> :-) :-) >>> >>> >>> >> >> Possibly scribus isn't compatible with python-2.6? The few times I've >> run into this with depclean I've removed the app (scribus in this >> case) cleaned up the machine with depclean and revdep-rebuild, and >> then reinstalled the app from scratch. If it tries to pull in >> phython-2.5 then you just have to make a choice whether you want it or >> not. (Or look for a mased ebuild, etc. >> >> - Mark >> >> >> > > LOL Since I would rather try to remove Scribus than python, I'll remove > Scribus, do some cleaning, then reinstall and see what happens. We all > know what could happen if I remove python that portage is using. o_O > > I'll report back if it continues after all this. Thanks to both Alan > and Mark on this one. I was getting drunk going around in circles with > this. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > >
I assume you've installed python-2.6 as part of emerge @system or @world and then run python-updater? That process has worked on my machines but I don't use too many office apps. Good luck! Cheers, Mark
