Trying to install gui-apps/nwg-shell, but it leads to circular dependency conflict with gui-apps/nwg-shell-config. ---- emerge --ask --verbose gui-apps/nwg-shell These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ... done! Dependency resolution took 4.26 s. [nomerge ] gui-apps/nwg-shell-0.5.22::guru PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_11 -python3_10" [ebuild N ~] gui-apps/nwg-shell-config-0.5.25::guru PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_11 -python3_10" 111 KiB [ebuild N ~] gui-apps/nwg-shell-0.5.22::guru PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_11 -python3_10" 2130 KiB Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 2241 KiB * Error: circular dependencies: (gui-apps/nwg-shell-config-0.5.25:0/0::guru, ebuild scheduled for merge) depends on (gui-apps/nwg-shell-0.5.22:0/0::guru, ebuild scheduled for merge) (buildtime) (gui-apps/nwg-shell-config-0.5.25:0/0::guru, ebuild scheduled for merge) (buildtime) * Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily * disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies.
First of all gui-apps/nwg-shell and gui-apps/nwg-shell-config are both python packages meaning they *shouldn't* need dependencies in DEPEND. Secondly I'm sceptical of these dependencies, it seems something where a meta package should exist to pull in all these packages, instead of depending on each other (as they don't appear to have imports on each and such) If the RDEPEND circular dependency is real then PDEPEND should be use to try and break it.
Yes I wanted to make a meta package for that as well. I think nwg-shell itself should be the meta package, it is an installer of the configs for the other packages and installs a few helper scripts and functions. I am not so familiar with Python packages. I added the dependencies of nwg packages to another because those package call each other at runtime.
I removed the dependency on nwg-shell-config from gui-apps/nwg-shell and added the package gui-apps/nwg as a meta package. gui-apps/nwg-shell as meta package does not work.
Things still need to get merged from dev to master
