Bug 113599

Summary:	Muine won't emerge. Mono USE flag required.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Todd Walton <todd>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Todd Walton 2005-11-25 17:14:13 UTC

Okay, stop me if you've heard this one.  I'm trying to emerge muine, some kind
of music player.  But the emerge fails with:
" * In order to compile muine, you need to have sys-apps/dbus emerged
 * with 'mono' in your USE flags. Please add that flag, re-emerge
 * dbus, and then emerge muine.

!!! ERROR: media-sound/muine-0.8.3 failed.
!!! Function pkg_setup, Line 67, Exitcode 0
!!! sys-apps/dbus is missing the .NET binding.
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message."

I always thought that USE flags would never block a build.  That if an ebuild
really needed some piece of software, it would handle it itself.  Sure, I say,
install what Mono stuff you have to get this muine working, just don't install
it anywhere else.  Shouldn't the muine ebuild (/portage) handle this dependency
itself?


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-11-25 17:16:24 UTC

Portage cannot handle such dependencies (yet), sorry.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2272 ***