Hi there, My system was in a clean state: emerge -pvud --newuse world => Nothing to merge I removed "dev-lang/lua" ebuild from my world file and then I ran: emerge -uD --depclean world => "dev-lang/lua" was unmerge. emerge -pvud --newuse world => Still nothing to merge Soon, I noticed some pb in kde: konqueror could not load a textviewer-part, complaining about lua lib being missing. I re-emerge "dev-lang/lua" and all was fixed. It looks like kde libs have a dependency on lua lib. I can provide more details on my worldfile/system if needed. Regards, po
May I ask why are you breaking your system and then filing bugs? This doesn't make any sense whatsoever, revdep-rebuild is the tool for fixing broken linkage after unmerging/upgrading a library etc, not 'emerge -uD world'.
Thanks for your quick reply! I am not trying to break my system... Just trying to remove unneeded ebuilds in my world file. Why should I have lua in my world file? I simply don't want to have it because it is not an ebuild that *I* want to use/have. kdelibs need it, not me. After I removed lua from my world file, --depclean removed it because no package depends on it. As --depclean is supposed to be broken (I have to admit that it has always worked fine for me), I ran emerge -uD world to check if any ebuild would complain about lua being removed... and it looked like no ebuild on my system needs lua. When I noticed that konqueror was missing something to function properly, I ran "revdep-rebuild" and I was told that kdelibs had a broken lib dependency (with lua). So, my conclusion is that kdelibs need lua lib and that kdelibs don't have a dependency on lua. Just a missing dependency on "dev-lang/lua". What do you think? Regards, po
(In reply to comment #2) > When I noticed that konqueror was missing something to function properly, I ran > "revdep-rebuild" and I was told that kdelibs had a broken lib dependency (with > lua). So let revdep-rebuild do its job; reopen with some error messages if revdep-rebuild doesn't fix the issue.
Having just ran into this myself... This should not have been closed. Automagic dependencies are wrong. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/automagic.xml kdelibs detects whether lua is installed and if so, enables (apparently) the ability to write custom indentation scripts for kate in it. This should be made optional with a lua USE flag.
This is fixed in 3.5.4-r2, added --without-lua parameter and lua useflag. KDE 3.5.5 will ship with --without-lua parameter already.
