Created attachment 456230 [details] emerge log Recently I had to rebuild my system (RAM failure) and I noticed and captured all the circular dependency problems. (sys-libs/gpm-1.20.7-r2:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) depends on (sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r5:0/5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (buildtime_slot_op) (sys-libs/gpm-1.20.7-r2:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (buildtime) It might be possible to break this cycle by applying the following change: - sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r5 (Change USE: -gpm)
This is a configuration issue. Portage guides you with what to do temporarily after which you can reset the USE flags.
*** Bug 616824 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I thought about this issue for a while. This issue is not invalid. Marking it as an invalid gives an impression that it is not an issue. This issue leads to more micro-management and confuses users. It is desirable to solve this if possible. After thinking for a while, I concluded that this issue should be solved in upstream packages. Thus, I think it's more correct to mark it as CANTFIX.
I agree that this is a ridiculous situation, if a package needs to be built twice to handle a circular dependency, then portage should have mechanisms to do this.
