105192 2005-09-07 15:39 0000 xsane and gimp have circular dependency, causing 'emerge gimp' to fail, if USE="scanner gimp" 2005-09-16 06:29:17 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux Applications 2005.1 All Linux RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 101841 1 jason@cougarcorp.net allanonjl@gentoo.org ceagan@gmail.com gnome@gentoo.org phosphan@gentoo.org jason@cougarcorp.net 2005-09-07 15:39:24 0000 If "scanner gimp" use flags set, then xsane and gimp set up a circular dependency, causing gimp installs on fresh systems to fail. xsane will fail to build as it cannot find the gimp plugins, and gimp will not compile without xsane. Workaround it to do: USE=-scanner emerge gimp; emerge gimp Similar, but not identical to, bug 101841. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: On new fresh system 1. Add gimp and scanner to USE Flags 2. emerge gimp carlo@gentoo.org 2005-09-07 16:23:14 0000 Patrick: Cyclic dependencies are never a good idea, And at least as long Portage still does not treat R/DEPEND differently it's a very bad idea. :) phosphan@gentoo.org 2005-09-08 00:58:39 0000 Yes, I added the gimp USE flag later, but I wasn't aware of what the gimp ebuild was doing - should have checked and complained about that error first. Please do _not_ depend on xsane (see bug #101841) because xsane is no valid gimp plugin if built without an existing gimp installation. Please fix this in the gimp ebuild. carlo@gentoo.org 2005-09-14 06:28:46 0000 *** Bug 105956 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** allanonjl@gentoo.org 2005-09-16 06:29:17 0000 Thanks, fixed in CVS.