# emerge -pv gnome These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! Error: circular dependencies: ebuild / dev-perl/libwww-perl-5.805 merge depends on ebuild / dev-perl/Crypt-SSLeay-0.51-r1 merge (hard) ebuild / dev-perl/Crypt-SSLeay-0.51-r1 merge depends on ebuild / dev-perl/libwww-perl-5.805 merge (hard) ebuild / gnome-base/gnome-2.14.2 merge depends on ebuild / mail-client/evolution-2.6.2-r1 merge (hard) ebuild / mail-client/evolution-2.6.2-r1 merge depends on ebuild / mail-filter/spamassassin-3.1.5 merge (hard) ebuild / mail-filter/spamassassin-3.1.5 merge depends on ebuild / dev-perl/libwww-perl-5.805 merge (hard) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ emerge --info Portage 2.1.2_pre1-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.18-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo x86_64 Genuine Intel(R) CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:50:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linuv.uv.es/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/" LANG="es_ES@euro" LC_ALL="es_ES@euro" LINGUAS="es" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X aac acpi alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cli crypt cups dlloader dri dvd dvdread elibc_glibc fbcon fortran gdbm gnome gpm gtk gtk2 input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipod isdnlog kernel_linux libg++ linguas_es ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl pcre perl ppds pppd python readline reflection session spl ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia xorg zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
*** Bug 149252 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 98479 [details] Same problem on an i386/p3: same circular dependencies on 'emerge gnome' I'm attaching 'emerge info' output from my i386/p3 because I have run into this bug today after updating portage/resyncing.
*** Bug 149695 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
From the duplicate bug: !!! Error: circular dependencies: ebuild / dev-perl/Audio-CD-disc-cover-0.05 merge depends on ebuild / dev-perl/libwww-perl-5.803-r1 merge (hard) ebuild / app-cdr/disc-cover-1.5.4 merge depends on ebuild / dev-perl/Audio-CD-disc-cover-0.05 merge (hard) ebuild / dev-perl/Crypt-SSLeay-0.51-r1 merge depends on ebuild / dev-perl/libwww-perl-5.803-r1 merge (hard) ebuild / dev-perl/libwww-perl-5.803-r1 merge depends on ebuild / dev-perl/Crypt-SSLeay-0.51-r1 merge (hard) This apparently has nothing to do w/ Gnome, re-assigning to perl folks.
*** Bug 149731 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144761 ***