USE="-nsplugin" --nodeps vlc builds vlc without any problems with xulrunner 1.9.2 installed. However, if the --nodeps option is omitted, it wants to downgrade xulrunner (which would obviously break the latest version of firefox) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge =net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2-r1 2. USE="-nsplugin" emerge -p vlc Actual Results: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild UD] net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.1.7 [1.9.2-r1] USE="alsa dbus gnome java python%* sqlite%* startup-notification -custom-optimization -debug (-libnotify%*) (-wifi%)" 45,829 kB [ebuild R ] media-video/vlc-1.0.5 USE="X a52 aac aalib alsa avahi dbus directfb dts dvb dvd fbcon ffmpeg flac gcrypt gnome gnutls hal libcaca libnotify libv4l2 mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nsplugin* ogg opengl oss png qt4 sdl speex sse svg truetype v4l v4l2 vlm vorbis x264 xml xv (-altivec) -atmo -bidi -cdda -cddax -cddb -cdio -dc1394 -debug -dirac -fluidsynth -fontconfig -ggi -httpd -id3tag -ieee1394 -jack -kate -libass -libproxy -libsysfs -libtiger -lirc -live -lua -matroska -modplug -mtp -musepack -optimisememory (-pda) -pulseaudio -pvr -remoteosd -rtsp -run-as-root -samba -schroedinger -sdl-image -shine -shout -skins -stream (-svga) -taglib -theora -twolame -udev -upnp -vcdinfo -vcdx (-win32codecs) -wma-fixed -xcb -xinerama -xosd -zvbi" 0 kB Total: 2 packages (1 downgrade, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 45,829 kB Expected Results: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: ... done! [ebuild R ] media-video/vlc-1.0.5 emerge --info Portage 2.1.7.17 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.31-gentoo-r6N x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6N-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_5200+-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:15:02 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p37 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4-r1, 3.1.1-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.1.0 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.0-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -msse3" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -msse3" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests ccache distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ http://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/linux/gentoo/" LANG="it" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="it" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/ibormuth /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext R X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 amr amrnb amrwb apache2 atlas avahi bash-completion berkdb blas bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups curl cxx dbus dga directfb divx divx4linux dovecot-sasl dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds embedded emboss encode evo extras f77 fam fbcon fetchmail firefox firefox3 flac font-server fortran gb gcj gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glib gnome gnutls gpm gs gstreamer gtk hal http humanities iconv imagemagick imap innodb ipv6 java javascript joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde kpathsea lapack lcms ldap leim lesstif libcaca libgda libnotify libv4l2 libwww lm_sensors mad maildir mbox mdnsresponder-compat mgetty midi mikmod mmx mmxext mng modules mozilla mp3 mp3tunes mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib music mysql ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia obex ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pda pdf perl pic png pop3d portaudio postgres ppds pppd prelude pstricks publishers python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline realmedia reflection sasl science sdl semantic-desktop session slang speex spell spl sql sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd thunar tiff timidity tk truetype unicode usb uudeview v4l v4l2 vcd vim-with-x vorbis webkit x264 xemacs xml xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xorg xpm xprint xscreensaver xsl xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel usb-audio" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa fbdev nv" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Sorry, of course that's: USE="-nsplugin" emerge --nodeps vlc builds vlc without any problems with xulrunner 1.9.2 installed.
Your pasted output from USE="-nsplugin" emerge -p vlc shows SNIP libnotify libv4l2 mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nsplugin* ogg opengl oss png qt4 sdl SNAP which means there is something going wrong, because the nsplugin is still to be installed. I checked the ebuild and the deps are set correctly to xulrunner "1.8<DEP<1.9.2"
> I checked the ebuild and the deps are set correctly to xulrunner > "1.8<DEP<1.9.2" Why "correctly" ?? If vlc can be built with xulrunner 1.9.2, why shouldn't it? Why should it force me to downgrade xulrunner? The "-nsplugin" is because vlc doesn't build with nsplugin, that's a known - as yet unresolved - bug.
(In reply to comment #3) > > I checked the ebuild and the deps are set correctly to xulrunner > > "1.8<DEP<1.9.2" > > > Why "correctly" ?? If vlc can be built with xulrunner 1.9.2, why shouldn't it? > Why should it force me to downgrade xulrunner? It only forces you if you want to have the nsplugin be build nsplugin? ( >=net-libs/xulrunner-1.8 x11-libs/libXpm x11-libs/libXt <net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2 ) > > The "-nsplugin" is because vlc doesn't build with nsplugin, that's a known - as > yet unresolved - bug. Your output shows nsplugin* and not -nsplugin, that means you want to build vlc with nsplugin support.