Since the package sys-libs/libselinux is masked --- at least on AMD64
it is --- I ran
emerge --depclean --verbose sys-libs/libselinux
and the only reverse dependency it reported was python-selinux. So I
removed both packages and severely broke my system.
It turns out that many, many executables require libselinux.so.1,
despite what the documentation of "--depclean" in "man emerge" says
(or what I think it says -- is this a bug or operator error?)
I cobbled together a system that limps along thanks to the 2008.0 beta
LiveCD (which does not depend on libselinux.so.1), but I am unable
to emerge a large number of packages that seem to silently depend on
libselinux.so.1: the ebuilds fail when ld cannot find -lselinux.
I do not have USE="selinux" anywhere, and I never have. There is no
"selinux" in the output of "emerge --info", and none of the build
environment files I've checked contain "selinux". "libselinux.so.1" is
not in directory in /etc/ld.so.conf. Adding USE="-selinux" on the
command line or in /etc/make.conf does not make any difference.
revdep-rebuild lists 37 packages, in particular many GNOME packages,
that depend on libselinux.so.1, but I don't seem to be able to
re-emerge any of them.
I ran
for pkg in $(equery depends libselinux | cut -d' ' -f1); do
eix -e $(qatom ${pkg} | cut -d' ' -f2)
done
and every package shown that depends on libselinux has actually been
installed with "-selinux". (BTW, revdep-rebuild and "equery depends"
don't agree on which packages depend on libselinux.so.1.)
What gives? Where does the "-lselinux" come from? How can I get rid of
this maddening dependency?
Thanks for any help.
BTW, as a temporary measure, I've created an empty libselinux.so.1
that seems to satisfy ld.
--- Vladimir
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