[solved]Circular Dependencies emerging Gnome on fresh Gentoo

[SGWineo]

Hi, I'm back to Gentoo after trying out a few other distros, really want to get it up and running. I've decided I want Gnome with BlackBox WM. I have freshly installed Gentoo, using 2008.0 stage 3 from minimal install. I've only installed syslog-ng, vixie-cron, vim, and pcmciautils so far. My USE="-qt3 -qt4 -arts -kde X dbus gtk gnome hal avahi cairo", following the Gnome configuration howto on gentoo.org, and I got a first error emerging gnome saying I need +cairo. I at first had about 20 flags and got rid of one's not needed at this point, and did emerge --sync and emerge --update --deep --newuse world. I'm using KEYWORDS="x86" (stable).

The error is circular dependencies.

('ebuild', '/', 'net-print/cups-1.3.9-r1', 'merge') depends on
('ebuild', '/', 'net-dns/avahi-0.6.24', ;merge') (hard)
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/pygtk-2.14.0', 'merge') depends on
('ebuild', '/', 'gnome-base/libglade-2.6.3', ;merge') (hard)
('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.7-r2', ;merge') (hard)
('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.7-r2', 'merge') depends on
('ebuild', '/', 'net-print/cups-1.3.9-r1', ;merge') (hard)
('ebuild', '/', 'net-dns/avahi-0.6.24', 'merge') depends on
('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.7-r2', ;merge') (hard)
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/pygtk-2.14.0', ;merge') (hard)
('ebuild', '/', 'gnome-base/libglade-2.6.3', ;merge') (hard)
('ebuild', '/', 'gnome-base/libglade-2.6.3', 'merge') depends on
('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.7-r2', ;merge') (hard)

Guessing this might mean I need to have 1 or more of these installed before trying emerge gnome I tried to emerge each of them, getting all of the same circular dependencies for each.

Any answers or ideas are appreciated, thx.

[purak]

[cwr]

I've had a number of problems with the "doc" flag, but that's not set in your case;
try emerge cups first, by itself, or conversely turning off the cups flag. I've had
some problems there, but I thought they were gone.

LATER:

I've checked the last 2008.0 build I did, and the problem is almost certainly
the avahi flag, which I don't use. avahi seems to pull in every circular dependency
there is, and cups and gnome-vfs both use it. Try -avahi in make.conf and see
what happens.

The CUPS problem was that cups 1.3.7-r1 wouldn't compile; I masked it with
">net-print/cups-1.2.12-r8". Another problem was xinit pulling in broken rsh
stuff, which needed to be suppressed with "minimal" in package.use; the other
snags were all related to docs. Much later there were problems with esound
and esd, but I never found their cause.

BTW, ghostscript (the old one, AFAIK), gtk+, gnome and libgnomeprint pull in cups
by default, and no-one else uses the flag, so it can be left out of make.conf.


Will

[SGWineo]

Thx cwr,
avahi was the only option holding up the emerge. I was looking forward to an easy gnome DNS finding program, but I'll find another option.

Solved

[desultory]

Once the other packages are installed, you should be able to enable the USE flag and rebuild.