On Sun, Dec 18 2011, Joshua Murphy wrote: > 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.
All the gnome-3 packages are masked (package.mask). Indeed, at the end of my output (see prev msg) you see recommendations from emerge for me to remove some masks. allan
