cant emerge --depclean

boazbd · Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:17 am Post subject: cant emerge --depclean

Hi all.
I'v been trying to remove the gnome installation from my computer using emerge --depclean.
The problem is that it wont work because every time I use it, it keeps telling me
that the package glitz-0.5.6 is required by xgl-0.0.1_pre20060714-r1 after I emerge it,
and run emerge --depclean again it says that cairo need glitz-0.4.4 and so on..
help, anybody??

drwook · Veteran Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 1324 Location: London

Well, IIRC there are a lot of gnome dependancies for compiz/xgl ATM...

boazbd · Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:27 am Post subject:

There must be a way to get rid of the unwanted packages even with xgl...
????

drwook · Veteran Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 1324 Location: London

Sure, 'emerge -C <package>' will remove <package> without any dependancy checking. But don't expect something to work after you rip out its dependancies...

boazbd · Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:26 pm Post subject:

I really don't think you're getting my intention.
The problem is that emerge --depclean asks me to do 'emerge --update', when I do
it emerges a different version of glitz and still I can't use --depclean.
All I want to do is:
emerge --depclean
revdep-rebuild
to remove any unused packages and repair the damage that may
have been caused...

drwook · Veteran Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 1324 Location: London

have the cairo/xgl ebuilds you're using got specific versions of glitz in || (P,R, )DEPEND ?

boazbd · Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:03 am Post subject:

yes they do and each has its own version number, so every time emerge installs
a different version of glitz, in an endless loop.
i think its versions 1.4 and 1.5 or 1.0.4 and 1.05...

drwook · Veteran Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 1324 Location: London

I'd either try removing the specific version from one of the ebuilds or just get rid of the shonky ebuilds... Prob best bet is editing the cairo ebuild at a somewhat educated wild guess