Bug 154972

Summary:	emerge virtual/jdk produces circular dependencies
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andrew Crampton <andrew>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Andrew Crampton 2006-11-13 00:13:44 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-GB; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: 

Wanted to emerge xfce4 but needed java.  emerged virtual/jdk and got circular
dependencies.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge virtual/jdk
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
ebuild / virtual/jdk-1.5.0 merge depends on
    ebuild / dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.08 merge (medium)
ebuild  / dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.08 depends on
    ebuild / media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.13 merge (medium)
ebuild / media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.13 depends on
    ebuild / app-doc/doxygen-1.5.1 merge (hard)
ebuild / dev-lang/swig-1.3.29-r1 merge depends on
    ebuild / virtual/jdk-1.5.0 merge (hard)
ebuild / app-doc/doxygen-1.5.1 merge depends on
    ebuild / media-gfx/graphviz-2.8-r2 merge (hard)
ebuild / media-gfx/graphviz-2.8-r2 merge depends on
    ebuild / dev-lang/swig-1.3.29-r1 merge (hard)
    ebuild / virtual/jdk-1.5.0 merge (hard)

Expected Results:  
successful emerge

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-13 00:18:55 UTC

Not fixable, sorry. A workaround should be something like

echo "media-gfx/graphviz -java" >> /etc/portage/package.use


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 153522 ***