While emerging gnome for the first time, I am unable to install as both gnome-session and gnome-settings-daemon require eachother to install. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Fresh install 2. emerge gnome 3. Actual Results: # emerge gnome Calculating dependencies .. ... done! [nomerge ] gnome-base/gnome-2.22.3 USE="cdr cups dvdr mono -accessibility -esd -ldap" [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-session-2.22.3-r1 USE="branding tcpd -debug -ipv6" [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-2.24.0 USE="alsa gstreamer libnotify -debug -esd -pulseaudio" * Error: circular dependencies: * Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily * disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies. ('ebuild', '/', 'gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-2.24.0', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'gnome-base/gnome-session-2.22.3-r1', 'merge') (hard) ('ebuild', '/', 'gnome-base/gnome-session-2.22.3-r1', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-2.24.0', 'merge') (hard) # emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc14 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r2-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_4800+-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:21:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r8 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.3.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/gentoo/ " LANG="en_CA.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 avahi berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo caps cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups curl curlwrappers dbus divx dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode evo fam fbcondecor ffmpeg fortran ftp gdbm gif glibc-omitfp glitz glut gnome gnutls gstreamer gtk hal iconv imagemagick imlib isdnlog java jingle jpeg lame lapack libnotify libwww mad maildir midi mikmod mjpeg mmx mmxext mono moonlight mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer msn mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg openal opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sqlite sqlite3 srt sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification subversion svg sysfs tcpd theora threads tidy tiff truetype unicode usb videos vim-syntax vorbis wmp wxwindows x264 xcomposite xml xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
+ 15 Nov 2008; <chainsaw@gentoo.org> gnome-settings-daemon-2.24.0.ebuild: + I added an explicit dependency on the fixed gnome-session ebuild. Circular + dependencies are bad, hmmkay? Taking it back out closes bug #246791 by + Steven Parker <sparker81@gmail.com>.
