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Bug 877549

Summary: sys-apps/portage-3.0.36 : Not warning regarding some circular dependency
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Eric F. GARIOUD <eric-f.garioud>
Component: Core - DependenciesAssignee: Portage team <dev-portage>
Status: UNCONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
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Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: emerge --info

Description Eric F. GARIOUD 2022-10-18 08:31:12 UTC
lddtreeing some program, I discover that I get a circular dependency :

libharfbuzz.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libharfbuzz.so.0
    libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6
    libharfbuzz.so.0 => !!! circular loop !!!

Ok, this is a known problem well documented ( https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Sam/Portage_help/Circular_dependencies ) being solved rebuilding freetype USE=-harfbuzz

The problem I report here is that if I want to rebuild harfbuzz having freetype installed USE = +harfbuzz, emerge will work happily without reporting any error such as shown in the wikipage linked hereabove.



Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Eric F. GARIOUD 2022-10-18 08:32:43 UTC
Created attachment 824677 [details]
emerge --info
Comment 2 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-10-18 08:39:41 UTC
For a start, please use a non-masked Portage.