BRM schrieb:
> I took the dive on my laptop this weekend and installed Gentoo 2008.0. I 
> started Friday night and used the stage3 and latest-portage.
> The initial install when okay, until I started emerging applications - 
> specifically X windows/KDE/etc; and that is the point I am still working on.
>
> The problem seems to be that emerge/portage is not detecting dependencies 
> correctly, or rather - a dependency says it is installed but the ebuilds for 
> other packages that depend on it do not find the files it supposedly 
> installed. For example, I have had to manually emerge nearly all the X 
> protocol (e.g. xproto, xkbproto, etc.) packages.
>
> I've installed several other gentoo systems, but not with 2008.0 directly 
> like this - my last two were installed under 2007.0 and upgraded to 2008.0 
> profiles.
> The only bug reports I come across seem to indicate broken e-builds, but that 
> does seem to be the case as "emerge --search <program>" indicates it is 
> installed when in fact it might not be which leads me to believe that the 
> local portage database (?) is somehow broken or something...
>
> Has anyone else seen this kind of behavior?
> Is there anything I can to do get fixed?
> -- Preferably without re-installing from scratch, though I can if need be 
> since I haven't gotten that far despite >48 hours of time put into it already.
>
> Nearly every time I run "emerge world -vuDN" it will go for a while and then 
> break when the contents of a package that was supposedly installed are not 
> found by a package depending on it.
>
> Any how...any tips would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Ben
>
>
>   
That sounds like a broken world file. try regenworld to fix this. After
that emerge -uvaDn world to fix all deps. If you didn't unemerge any
package (python gcc or so) you should get all dependencies that way. Run
revdep-rebuild will help some more afterwards.

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