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 Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 8:29 am Post subject: Getting rid of an obsolete package |
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Hello,
I have an obsolete package installed in my system (app-text/ghostscript-gpl). It is not in the world file, but several packages depend on it:
| Code: | app-text/doxygen-1.13.0-r1 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
(app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
app-text/epspdf-0.6.5.1 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
app-text/gv-3.7.4 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
(app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
app-text/libspectre-0.2.12 (>=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.53.0)
(>=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.53.0)
app-text/qpdf-11.10.1 (test ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl[tiff(+)])
dev-lang/nasm-2.16.03 (doc ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
media-gfx/gimp-2.10.38-r1 (postscript ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
(postscript ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
media-gfx/graphviz-12.2.1-r1 (postscript ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
(postscript ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
(doc ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
media-gfx/kio-ps-thumbnailer-24.12.2 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
media-libs/libwmf-0.2.13-r1 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
(app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
net-print/cups-meta-1 (postscript ? >=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.09[cups])
net-print/libcupsfilters-2.1.0 (postscript ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl[cups])
(postscript ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl[cups])
net-print/libppd-2.1.0 (postscript ? >=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.09[cups])
(postscript ? >=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.09[cups])
sci-visualization/gnuplot-6.0.2 (doc ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
x11-libs/cairo-1.18.2-r1 (test ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl) |
Some of the dependences can be turn off by supressing USE flags. But not all of them.
How can I get rid of it? Do I have to uninstall all dependences?
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| Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 8:31 am Post subject: |
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This is equery output. It's not always accurate. Equery takes shortcuts and usually overreports.
Post the output of
| Code: | | emerge -pvc ghostscript-gpl |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 9:09 am Post subject: |
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emerge -pvc ghostscript-gpl gives:
| Code: | Calculating dependencies... done!
app-text/ghostscript-gpl-10.01.2 pulled in by:
app-text/doxygen-1.13.0-r1 requires app-text/ghostscript-gpl
app-text/epspdf-0.6.5.1 requires app-text/ghostscript-gpl
app-text/gv-3.7.4 requires app-text/ghostscript-gpl
app-text/libspectre-0.2.12 requires >=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.53.0:=, >=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.53.0:0/10.01=
media-gfx/gimp-2.10.38-r1 requires app-text/ghostscript-gpl:=, app-text/ghostscript-gpl:0/10.01=
media-gfx/graphviz-12.2.1-r1 requires app-text/ghostscript-gpl
media-gfx/kio-ps-thumbnailer-24.12.2 requires app-text/ghostscript-gpl
media-libs/libwmf-0.2.13-r1 requires app-text/ghostscript-gpl
net-print/cups-meta-1 requires >=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.09[cups]
net-print/libcupsfilters-2.1.0 requires app-text/ghostscript-gpl[cups]
net-print/libppd-2.1.0 requires >=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.09[cups]
>>> No packages selected for removal by depclean
Packages installed: 1626
Packages in world: 84
Packages in system: 49
Required packages: 1626
Number to remove: 0 |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 10:41 am Post subject: |
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Try emerge --deselect all the lib stuff and see what happens then. When I get on my computer I'll investigate if more of the rest should be cleaned as well.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 11:37 am Post subject: |
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pstickar,
Why do you think that ghostscript-gpl is obsolete?
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | | Why do you think that ghostscript-gpl is obsolete? |
It is my interpretation of the error message:
| Code: | !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
!!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
media-libs/jbig2dec:0
(media-libs/jbig2dec-0.20:0/0.20::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="png -static-libs -test" ABI_X86="(64)" pulled in by
(no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in this slot)
(media-libs/jbig2dec-0.19-r1:0/0.19::gentoo, installed) USE="png -static-libs -test" ABI_X86="(64)" pulled in by
>=media-libs/jbig2dec-0.19:0/0.19= required by (app-text/ghostscript-gpl-10.01.2:0/10.01::gentoo, installed) USE="X cups dbus gtk (unicode) -static-libs" ABI_X86="(64)" L10N="de (-ja) -ko -zh-CN -zh-TW"
^^^^^^^^
!!! The slot conflict(s) shown above involve package(s) which may need to
!!! be rebuilt in order to solve the conflict(s). However, the following
!!! package(s) cannot be rebuilt for the reason(s) shown:
(app-text/ghostscript-gpl-10.01.2:0/10.01::gentoo, installed): ebuild is masked or unavailable |
Besides, emerge --search ghostscript-gpl gives
| Code: | * app-text/ghostscript-gpl
Latest version installed: 10.01.2
Homepage: https://ghostscript.com/ https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=summary
Description: Interpreter for the PostScript language and PDF
License: AGPL-3 CPL-1.0 |
Hence the ebuild is not masked but unavailable. For that reason I think that it is obsolete.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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| pstickar wrote: | | NeddySeagoon wrote: | | Why do you think that ghostscript-gpl is obsolete? |
It is my interpretation of the error message:
| Code: | !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
!!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
media-libs/jbig2dec:0
(media-libs/jbig2dec-0.20:0/0.20::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="png -static-libs -test" ABI_X86="(64)" pulled in by
(no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in this slot)
(media-libs/jbig2dec-0.19-r1:0/0.19::gentoo, installed) USE="png -static-libs -test" ABI_X86="(64)" pulled in by
>=media-libs/jbig2dec-0.19:0/0.19= required by (app-text/ghostscript-gpl-10.01.2:0/10.01::gentoo, installed) USE="X cups dbus gtk (unicode) -static-libs" ABI_X86="(64)" L10N="de (-ja) -ko -zh-CN -zh-TW"
^^^^^^^^
!!! The slot conflict(s) shown above involve package(s) which may need to
!!! be rebuilt in order to solve the conflict(s). However, the following
!!! package(s) cannot be rebuilt for the reason(s) shown:
(app-text/ghostscript-gpl-10.01.2:0/10.01::gentoo, installed): ebuild is masked or unavailable |
Besides, emerge --search ghostscript-gpl gives
| Code: | * app-text/ghostscript-gpl
Latest version installed: 10.01.2
Homepage: https://ghostscript.com/ https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=summary
Description: Interpreter for the PostScript language and PDF
License: AGPL-3 CPL-1.0 |
Hence the ebuild is not masked but unavailable. For that reason I think that it is obsolete. |
Well, your interpretation is... you guessed it - incorrect. To further diagnose your situation I'm going to need the full command you're running with the full output. You can use wgetpaste for that.
| Code: | | wgetpaste -ic 'your command here' |
Be careful not to pass -a (--ask) but -p (--pretend) option to emerge.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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The paste can be seen here: https://bpa.st/PJ3A.
It is the first problem of the many that appear.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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pstickar,
| Code: | $ emerge --search ghostscript
[ Results for search key : ghostscript ]
Searching...
* app-text/ghostscript-gpl
Latest version available: 10.04.0
Latest version installed: 10.04.0
Size of files: 66,479 KiB
Homepage: https://ghostscript.com/ https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=summary
Description: Interpreter for the PostScript language and PDF
License: AGPL-3 CPL-1.0
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Its still available here.
| Code: | ...
(no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in this slot)
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is part of an informational message that a newer version of a package is available but you can't have it because something else needs an older one.
That sort ot thing is a feature of rolling releases. Eventually the dependency will be updated and that informational message will go away.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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| pstickar wrote: | The paste can be seen here: https://bpa.st/PJ3A.
It is the first problem of the many that appear. |
So you are on ~amd64:
| Code: | ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
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The conflicts are so many that I'd rather have a peek in your world and start from there:
| Code: | | wgetpaste /var/lib/portage/world |
But first try to run emerge -ca and tell me is it wants to clean something. If that something is something you don't need go ahead and clean it.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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The world file: https://bpa.st/RKOA.
The cleaning got rid of a few packages that I deselected before my previous post.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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| pstickar wrote: | The world file: https://bpa.st/RKOA.
The cleaning got rid of a few packages that I deselected before my previous post. |
First thing I notice is you having jabref and jabref-bin, which may or may not be a bad thing but it's definitely not the problem.
The next suspicious things are a few sci-libs, which you may deselect if they don't sound familiar to you.
The last thing is you should not have elogind there, it should be selected by either your profile or plasma.
However I don't think there's anything substantial in those above except the sci-libs packages.
If you see anything you can't think of why it's there' deselect it and run a fresh depcelan. If it doesn't remove anything you want to keep, let it go.
Do you happen to have any sets? If so, post them. If you don't, then give me a fresh wgetpsate of your world update command.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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I deselected several things (jabref,...).
The update command now gives: https://bpa.st/XL7A and the remaining world file is https://bpa.st/GFSQ.
I basically removed user applications that I may add later. I was afraid of deselecting elogind (and not knowing what to do if emerge -ca wants to remove it).
But the two errors remain. It is about ghostscript-gpl and the conflict between dev-util/gdbus-codegen and dev-libs/glib.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Chiitoo wrote: |
Are higher versions of it masked perhaps?
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Yes, next step was going to be /etc/portage :)
| Code: | | wgetpaste -c 'grep -r "" /etc/portage/package.* |
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| logrusx wrote: | | Chiitoo wrote: |
Are higher versions of it masked perhaps?
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Yes, next step was going to be /etc/portage 
| Code: | | wgetpaste -c 'grep -r "" /etc/portage/package.* |
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https://bpa.st/QQKA
Yes, they are masked. Unmasking them, the update command turns out to be https://bpa.st/62UQ.
Thank you people for the time you invested helping me to find the problem.
The second conflict remains...
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| Code: | | /etc/portage/package.mask/ghostscript:>app-text/ghostscript-gpl-10.01.2 |
You also have plenty of ruby_targets_ruby30 which is going to cause trouble very soon.
Also plenty of python_targets_python3_11. You should not need those. Try moving ruby and python_upgrade_from_311_to_312 files out of package.use and run a full world update to see if you still need those.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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pstickar,
The hint is in the error | Code: | | [blocks B ] <dev-util/gdbus-codegen-2.82.5 ("<dev-util/gdbus-codegen-2.82.5" is soft blocking dev-libs/glib-2.82.5) |
<dev-util/gdbus-codegen-2.82.5" is soft blocking ... update gdbus-codegen to at least 2.82.5 to fix that.
If you add --backtrack=500 to your emerge command portage will try harder to solve the dependency graph and take longer until it gives up.
Let your profile manage PYTHON and RUBY unless you know you need versions that it will not provide.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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| logrusx wrote: | You also have plenty of ruby_targets_ruby30 which is going to cause trouble very soon.
Also plenty of python_targets_python3_11. You should not need those. Try moving ruby and python_upgrade_from_311_to_312 files out of package.use and run a full world update to see if you still need those. |
Moved the said files out of package.use and the update command does not need them: https://bpa.st/OCHA. Thank you for the hint.
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pstickar,
Tell portage to try harder.
| Code: | | emerge -p --verbose-conflicts --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world --backtrack=500 |
What does that say?
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | pstickar,
The hint is in the error | Code: | | [blocks B ] <dev-util/gdbus-codegen-2.82.5 ("<dev-util/gdbus-codegen-2.82.5" is soft blocking dev-libs/glib-2.82.5) |
<dev-util/gdbus-codegen-2.82.5" is soft blocking ... update gdbus-codegen to at least 2.82.5 to fix that.
If you add --backtrack=500 to your emerge command portage will try harder to solve the dependency graph and take longer until it gives up.
Let your profile manage PYTHON and RUBY unless you know you need versions that it will not provide. |
Thank you for the didactical hints but I still do not get it. emerge --search dev-util/gdbus-codegen gives:
| Code: | * dev-util/gdbus-codegen
Latest version available: 2.82.4
Latest version installed: 2.82.4
Size of files: 5.427 KiB
Homepage: https://www.gtk.org/
Description: GDBus code and documentation generator
License: LGPL-2+ |
which means to me that I have no chance of getting version 2.82.5. It is not available. I checked if I have that one masked, but no, there is no mention to gdbus in the /etc/portage/package.* files.
I also tried --backtrack=1000, to no avail. The conflict stays the same.
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| pstickar wrote: | | NeddySeagoon wrote: | pstickar,
The hint is in the error | Code: | | [blocks B ] <dev-util/gdbus-codegen-2.82.5 ("<dev-util/gdbus-codegen-2.82.5" is soft blocking dev-libs/glib-2.82.5) |
<dev-util/gdbus-codegen-2.82.5" is soft blocking ... update gdbus-codegen to at least 2.82.5 to fix that.
If you add --backtrack=500 to your emerge command portage will try harder to solve the dependency graph and take longer until it gives up.
Let your profile manage PYTHON and RUBY unless you know you need versions that it will not provide. |
Thank you for the didactical hints but I still do not get it. emerge --search dev-util/gdbus-codegen gives:
| Code: | * dev-util/gdbus-codegen
Latest version available: 2.82.4
Latest version installed: 2.82.4
Size of files: 5.427 KiB
Homepage: https://www.gtk.org/
Description: GDBus code and documentation generator
License: LGPL-2+ |
which means to me that I have no chance of getting version 2.82.5. It is not available. I checked if I have that one masked, but no, there is no mention to gdbus in the /etc/portage/package.* files.
I also tried --backtrack=1000, to no avail. The conflict stays the same. |
| Code: | # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge --search gdbus-codegen
[ Results for search key : gdbus-codegen ]
Searching...
* dev-util/gdbus-codegen
Latest version available: 2.82.5
Latest version installed: 2.80.5
Size of files: 5,425 KiB
Homepage: https://www.gtk.org/
Description: GDBus code and documentation generator
License: LGPL-2+
[ Applications found : 1 ] |
When did you last sync? |
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| logrusx wrote: | | When did you last sync? |
Today in the morning.
This is good news. Tomorrow, when I sync again, I'll get it. I would do it right now ... but it is against the rules.
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| Instead of using emerge --search, tell Portage exactly what you want: emerge --ask --verbose other options '>=dev-util/gdbus-codegen-2.82.5' other packages / sets. This will either do what you instructed, or explain why not. |
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