dev-lang/rust failure soft blocking dev-lang{slvd}

[depontius]

[cwc]

updated Chromium . This system no longer needs virtual/rust
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[logrusx]

[Banana]

[Atha]

I'm reporting that I had the issue that I got a circular dependency. Normally, I just give portage time to fix itself, so I waited two days or more. Often, an "emerge --sync" then solved the situation for me in the past...

This time it was actually my own fault, because I had blocked dev-lang/rust-bin in my /etc/portage/package.mask. This was the reason I got circular dependencies during the upgrade from virtual/rust to slotted rust.

Why I'm really chiming in here is to report that I did NOT have to manually remove/recompile anything: neither did I have to unmerge virtual/rust nor did I have to manually update dev-lang/rust. Yes, virtual/rust stayed on my system, but it didn't interfere with anything, and emerge -a --depclean did catch it as no longer required i.e. selected for removal. The only thing that may be an issue is that dev-lang/rust-bin may be selected as the dependency instead of dev-lang/rust, in which case it is sufficient to simply remove rust-bin first, and then run depclean. (See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1171685.html#8846230 for that...)

All that was needed (in my case) was a regular emerge -aDuvN --with-bdeps=y --keep-going @world, but it may just stop at one point there, even with "--keep-going". In my case however I simply had to start it again and it installed all the rest... One solution may be to use "--with-bdeps=n" instead (see: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1171685.html#8846211 the 3rd paragraph from the bottom.)

Anyway, see https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8846251.html#8846169 for the full story.
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