circular dependency glitz/cairo

thesquib · n00b Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 52

Hey all, i'm a newbie to all of this (just so you know)
Anyway, i played around with xgl/compiz it works great. Except, whenever I do an update, portage thinks it needs to downgrade Cairo 1.2.4 and glitz 0.5.6 to older versions, and does, which breaks things.. The next time I attempt an update, it upgrades them again. And so on..

How can I find out what it is that is requesting the older versions to be installed, or force it to ignore or not downgrade these packages...

Thanks,

thesquib

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

Sounds like the same type of problem in the FAQ entry.

vibrokatana · Guru Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 328 Location: o0o0oo

you could specify the version in the package keywords.

such as:
>=x11-libs/cairo-1.2.4 ~x86
>=media-libs/glitz-0.5.6 ~x86

I think that is the right formatting
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Sadako · Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:38 pm Post subject:

I had the same problem recently, it was caused by the stable version of pycairo specifically requiring =x11-libs/cairo-1.0*, unmasking and installing pycairo-1.2.0 solved this for me.

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