Bug 47685

Summary:	dependecies are calculated wrong
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sven <sven.koehler>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	mr_bones_
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Sven 2004-04-13 03:51:47 UTC

hi,

what's wrong here?

# emerge opera -pv

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/openmotif-2.1.30-r4   0 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/lcms-1.12  +jpeg +python -tiff +zlib  554 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/libmng-1.0.4   555 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/libungif-4.1.0.1b  +X +gif  305 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/ORBit-0.5.17  +nls  0 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2  -doc -kde +nls  2,807 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-db/unixODBC-2.2.6  +gnome +qt  2,128 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.0-r1  +cups -doc -firebird +gif -icc -ipv6 -mysql -nas +odbc +opengl -postgres -sqlite -xinerama +zlib  14,064 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] net-www/opera-7.23-r1  -operanom2 -static  24,647 kB 

Total size of downloads: 45,063 kB


well, unixODBC gets emerged before qt, but unixODBC depends on qt.

In addition portage sometimes tries to emerge both blackdown-jre and blackdown-jdk but blackdown-jdk is a superset of backdown-jre and it seems to me, that portage doesn't include everything that the ebuild provides.



Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Sven 2004-04-13 04:08:38 UTC

well, forget my last comment about blackdown-jdk and blackdown-jre.
it's very hard for portage to resolv that, since the portage might first find a dependency on virtual/jre and therefor selects blackdown-jre.
if it than finds a dependency on virtual/jdk, portage will decide to emerge blackdown-jdk.

to overcome the problem, portage may perform a cleanup of the package-list by removing a package if another package exists, that is a superset, but that might take some time.

Comment 2 Masatomo Nakano (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-13 13:57:42 UTC

Can you show us 'emerge info' and 'emerge opera -pvt' too?

Comment 3 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-13 17:43:00 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 14178 ***