Bug 67845

Summary:	gentoolkit needs ncurses package
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Joshua <js>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Portage Tools Team <tools-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Joshua 2004-10-16 21:52:30 UTC

gentoolkit needs ncurses but does not have it as a requirement. Build will fail unless ncurses is preinstalled or installed manually.

My USE fags say to install ncurses

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-17 07:01:13 UTC

None of the tools in gentoolkit needs ncurses AFAIK, and I just tried, I can install it with ncurses removed without a problem. Could you post the error you get?

Comment 2 Joshua 2004-10-17 07:52:12 UTC

Okay more info... gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre9 depends on dialog which in turn depends on ncurses. So to be correct it is not gentoolkit that failed but dialog during my gentoolkit emerge.  Looking at my log, I had ncurses-5.4-r5 installed when dialog failed. I don't remember the exact error but it said something about ncursesw so I emerge ncurses which reinstalled ncurses-5.4-r5 after which dialog/gentoolkit emerged okay. So it appears that my ncurses install got messed up. The original install of ncurses-5.4-r5 was 2 weeks ag during an emerge system. Perhaps something I emerged messed with the files. Any suggestions on how to track that down short of resinstalling each package one at the time :)

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-10-18 14:55:35 UTC

sounds like mismatch of USE=unicode and ncurses

re-open when you have `emerge info` and the build error