Bug 298941 – Circular dependency: acl, gettext, attr

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo/Alt

[Description Rabbe Fogelholm 2009-12-30 08:00:29 UTC]

Platform is SUSE Enterprise Desktop 10 SP 2. Bootstrapping fails at the `emerge -e system' step:

emerge -e system
Calculating dependencies  ^H^H... done!

[nomerge      ] sys-apps/gawk-3.1.7  USE="nls*" 
[nomerge      ]  sys-devel/gettext-0.17  USE="acl nls -doc -emacs -nocxx -openmp" 
[ebuild  N    ]   virtual/acl-0 
[ebuild  N    ]    sys-apps/acl-2.2.47-r1  USE="nls (-nfs)" 
[ebuild  N    ]     sys-apps/attr-2.4.43  USE="nls" 
[ebuild  N    ]      sys-devel/gettext-0.17  USE="acl nls -doc -emacs -nocxx -openmp" 

 * Error: circular dependencies:

('ebuild', '/', 'virtual/acl-0', 'merge') depends on
  ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-apps/acl-2.2.47-r1', 'merge') (runtime)
('ebuild', '/', 'sys-devel/gettext-0.17', 'merge') depends on
  ('ebuild', '/', 'virtual/acl-0', 'merge') (buildtime)
('ebuild', '/', 'sys-apps/attr-2.4.43', 'merge') depends on
  ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-devel/gettext-0.17', 'merge') (buildtime)
('ebuild', '/', 'sys-apps/acl-2.2.47-r1', 'merge') depends on
  ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-devel/gettext-0.17', 'merge') (buildtime)
  ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-apps/attr-2.4.43', 'merge') (buildtime)

 * Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily
 * disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies.

[Comment 1 Fabian Groffen 2009-12-30 08:16:53 UTC]

yesterday acl was unmasked for the prefix/linux profiles

[Comment 2 Jonathan Callen (RETIRED) 2009-12-30 19:16:26 UTC]

This has now been fixed, acl is no longer enabled by default (you have to set USE=acl to get it)