Bug 21698 – xft refuses to emerge

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Wolfgang Thiess 2003-05-26 02:06:50 UTC]

When I try to emerge xft, I get this result: 
------------------------------------------------------------ 
# emerge -p xft 
 
These are the packages that I would merge, in order: 
 
Calculating dependencies      ...done! 
[blocks B    ] >=x11-base/xfree-4.3-r2 (from pkg x11-libs/xft-2.0.1-r2) 
[ebuild  N   ] x11-libs/xft-2.0.1-r2   
------------------------------------------------------------ 
x11-libs/xft/xft-2.0.1-r2.ebuild containes a dependency: 
!>=x11-base/xfree-4.3-r2 
 
The numbering for xfree is three digits (xfree-4.2.1-r2, xfree-4.3.0-r2, xfree-4.3.1-r3). Maybe 
there is a problem?

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2003-06-12 07:12:39 UTC]

seems you are correct, makes me wonder why noone else has seen this ?

corrected in the ebuild now, thanks for your report.

[Comment 2 FieldySnuts 2003-06-30 16:33:52 UTC]

I appear to get the reverse, not sure what's going on here. 
 
# emerge -p xfree 
 
These are the packages that I would merge, in order: 
 
Calculating dependencies ...done! 
[blocks B    ] x11-libs/xft ("virtual/xft" from pkg x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3) 
[ebuild    U ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3 [4.3.0-r1] 
 
 
Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-1.0, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.2.5-r2,2.2.5-r8) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.4.20-crazyCFLAGS i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1800+ 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo 
ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/ 
gentoo http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ ft 
p://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config 
/usr/kde/2/share/config 
/usr/kde/3/share/config 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb:/usr/kde/3.1/share/config:/usr/shar 
e/config" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" 
PORTDIR="/home/portage" 
DISTDIR="/home/portage/distfiles" 
PKGDIR="/home/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/portage/tmp" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups jpeg libg++ mikmod mpeg ncurses quicktime 
spell xm 
l2 xv aalib berkdb bonobo directfb esd gdbm ggi gif gnome-libs gtkhtml guile 
imlib 
 java ldap libwww motif mozilla nls opengl pam png python qt readline scanner 
sdl 
slang ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff X gtk gtk2 gpm gnome -alsa -arts 3dnow cdr 
en 
code kde mmx oggvorbis pdflib perl sse truetype xmms ipv6" 
COMPILER="" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O3 -pipe -fexpensive-optimizations 
-fomit-frame-pointer 
-D__SMP__ -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse,387" 
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O3 -pipe -fexpensive-optimizations 
-fomit-frame-pointe 
r -D__SMP__ -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse,387" 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" 
MAKEOPTS="-j3" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync10.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
FEATURES="sandbox ccache" 
 
Appologies for trashed info, not sure how to avoid it. 

[Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) 2003-07-01 04:19:14 UTC]

no, thats normal, xfree-4.3.0-r2 and  up _should_ block xft, because xfree already provides it.

[Comment 4 FieldySnuts 2003-07-01 17:07:09 UTC]

Okay. So I should unmerge xft? What about apps that use xft such as xchat 2 
(or maybe I'm thinking the wrong)? 

[Comment 5 foser (RETIRED) 2003-07-02 04:16:50 UTC]

yes, but i think emerge should do that automaticly (?) , but it first should be removed yep.

xfree now provide xft, so theres no need for this extra package anymore. Everything should keep running just fine.

[Comment 6 FieldySnuts 2003-07-02 17:14:48 UTC]

The emerge does not unmerge xft, it errors out complaining that xft is blocking 
xfree. I manually unmerged xft, and the xfree compile finished. 
 
Thanks!