On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: > I get dependency problems in my normal update world that I can't > understand. The entire output is below. > > As far as I can tell gnome-2.32.1-r1 (which is installed) is requiring > packages from gnome-3, which must be wrong. I don't see any such > dependencies in the ebuild for gnome-2.32.1-r1 and there is an "official > mask list" (which I am using) for those of us who want to > delay installing gnome-3 for a while. > > My conclusion that gnome-2... is requiring gnome-3 packages (which I > know is wrong) comes from two points in the output below. > > 1. The indenting of the --tree --verbose output seems to say this > (e.g., the first two lines say gnome-2... depends on nautilus-3) > > 2. The comments related to mask changes at the bottom say > evince-3... is required by gnome-2... > > Please help. > thanks, > allan
Without doing any digging (I'm 100mi away from my Gentoo boxes and sitting on satellite internet, so SSH is painful), I would presume the packages pulling in those dependencies aren't specifying a maximum version, so it's not that they're "requiring" gnome 3 packages, they're requiring gnome packages and are choosing to use the newest, which happens to be part of 3, meaning the gnome 2 ebuilds would need updated to require version < 3.0 to avoid it automatically, and possibly block on mixing 2 and 3 if the mixing really does give issues. In /etc/portage/package.mask (untested, for the aforementioned reasons), add: >=gnome-base/nautilus-3 >=app-text/evince-3 -- Joshua M. Murphy Poison [BLX]
