877549 – sys-apps/portage-3.0.36 : Not warning regarding some circular dependency

Bug 877549 - sys-apps/portage-3.0.36 : Not warning regarding some circular dependency

Summary: sys-apps/portage-3.0.36 : Not warning regarding some circular dependency

Status:	UNCONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core - Dependencies (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2022-10-18 08:31 UTC by Eric F. GARIOUD
Modified:	2022-10-18 08:39 UTC (History)
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Description Eric F. GARIOUD 2022-10-18 08:31:12 UTC

lddtreeing some program, I discover that I get a circular dependency :

libharfbuzz.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libharfbuzz.so.0
    libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6
    libharfbuzz.so.0 => !!! circular loop !!!

Ok, this is a known problem well documented ( https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Sam/Portage_help/Circular_dependencies ) being solved rebuilding freetype USE=-harfbuzz

The problem I report here is that if I want to rebuild harfbuzz having freetype installed USE = +harfbuzz, emerge will work happily without reporting any error such as shown in the wikipage linked hereabove.



Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Eric F. GARIOUD 2022-10-18 08:32:43 UTC

Created attachment 824677 [details]
emerge --info

Comment 2 Sam James archtester

2022-10-18 08:39:41 UTC

For a start, please use a non-masked Portage.