Bug 546134 – emerge gnome ends up with circular dependencies issue

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Pacho Ramos 2015-04-10 08:29:28 UTC]

I myself suffered it a few days ago and, even if it can be workarounded easily with the trick portage suggests (and, then, installing the old notification-daemon temporally to unbreak it), maybe we could find a better solution :/

The circular dep issue is reported also at:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7638298.html

and many other places. In summary it is caused by:
gnome-shell rdepends on gnome-control-center
gnome-control-center rdepends on nm-applet
nm-applet rdepends on virtual/notification-daemon
virtual/notification-daemon rdepends on gnome-shell => dep issue

[Comment 1 Pacho Ramos 2015-04-10 08:32:33 UTC]

the problem is that I am unsure if there is any place where we could use PDEPEND instead of RDEPEND. Looking to the ebuilds I think the best candidate is nm-applet.

In summary: move virtual/notification-daemon RDEPEND to PDEPEND in nm-applet ebuild

But, I would like to let you review it as maybe I am missing something

Thanks

[Comment 2 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) 2015-04-11 15:21:57 UTC]

gnome-control-center links to nm-applet - so that cannot be changed to pdepend.

I think any of the other deps could in theory be changed to pdepend. However, IMHO the most logical place is gnome-shell -> gnome-control-center. This is because gnome-control-center has a huge number of dependencies which is growing with every release, and tracking that they don't start pulling in notification-daemon somewhere in their dep graph becomes problematic.

+  11 Apr 2015; Alexandre Rostovtsev <[e-mail]>
+  gnome-shell-3.14.3.ebuild, gnome-shell-3.14.4.ebuild:
+  Break circular dependency between gnome-shell and gnome-control-center (bug
+  #546134, thanks to Pacho).

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2015-04-11 15:25:31 UTC]

I agree, thanks for the reasoning :)

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2015-04-26 18:27:04 UTC]

*** Bug 547830 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 Pacho Ramos 2015-04-26 18:27:57 UTC]

This is occurring again because gnome-shell was missing a RDEPEND (and also DEPEND) on nm-applet :( (we cannot move that to PDEPEND as configure will check for nm-applet) -> bug 546606

[Comment 6 Pacho Ramos 2015-04-26 18:31:57 UTC]

Moving virtual/notification-daemon to PDEPEND in nm-applet should work, right? @gnome, could you confirm? Thanks

[Comment 7 Pacho Ramos 2015-07-09 09:54:01 UTC]

I will do it then

[Comment 8 Pacho Ramos 2015-07-13 20:27:30 UTC]

+  13 Jul 2015; Pacho Ramos <[e-mail]> nm-applet-1.0.2.ebuild:
+  virtual/notification-daemon as PDEPEND to try to avoid circular dep issues,
+  bug #546134
+