On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 09:02:24 -0600 Dale wrote: > Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > On Sunday 24 December 2006 15:33, Dale wrote: > > > > > >> OK. Now I get this for mindi-1.11. One version has something > >> missing and the other fails to compile. Wonder why this is masked? > >> [cut] > >> > > > > Are you trying to install mindi by itself or as part of an "emerge > > mondo-rescue"? Seems like some dependency is missing... > > > > > >> Anybody know what newt.h is? Looks like it needs it for something. > >> > > > > * dev-libs/newt > > Available versions: 0.50.35-r2 ~0.50.35-r3 ~0.50.35-r4 0.51.6 > > 0.51.6-r1 ~0.51.6-r2 ~0.52.2 > > Homepage: http://www.redhat.com/ > > Description: Redhat's Newt windowing toolkit > > development files > > > > mondo-rescue does depend upon newt, but mindi doesn't (I'd say > > that's probably a bug, but otoh I think mindi alone is rather > > useless). > > Here's the funny part. I figured out that that file is in the package > newt, who would have thunk that. LOL Anyway, I emerge -1 it then > when I tell it to start emerging mondorescue again, it skips the > package mindi completely. > > Since I have no clue what this may break, I went back and emerge -1 > mindi just in case. It worked this time, since newt was there. May > be a bug too. Now back to mondorescue.
Sounds like the ebuild needs to include newt as a dependency! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
