Emerge asks for a LOT of package

Darwish · n00b Joined: 13 May 2011 Posts: 15

Hi There. I'm new to Gentoo and I'm still in the installation steps.
I have this problem now : whatever I want to merge, be it the smallest filesystem utils,
checking at first with emerge --pretend, emerge spits 200 packages and ends with the following Error :
Circular dependencies gcc and two others. The make.profile points to desktop. Is this related somehow ?

dol-sen · Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 8:46 pm Post subject:

How many packages depends on what exact command you are using. You are most likely using -u and -N, as well as -D after having done a --sync already.

In that case it would be normal, since -u means --update, -D means --Deep, and -N means --newuse.
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Darwish · n00b Joined: 13 May 2011 Posts: 15

exclusively --pretend busybox

few · Guru Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 448

Post the circular dependency. Which stage3 did you use to install?

Darwish · n00b Joined: 13 May 2011 Posts: 15

/var/db/pkg is empty
I'm in chroot of /mnt/gentoo

emerge --pretend busybox
spits a very long list featuring all sort of package, X11libs, sys-devel, perl-core, whatever...
ending with
* Error:circular dependencies
(sys-devel/gcc)
(sys-libs/glibc)
(sys-devel/gcc)

Darwish · n00b Joined: 13 May 2011 Posts: 15

okay /var/db/pkg was empty because not mounted... :oops:

few · Guru Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 448

Please post "emerge --info" and you didn't say which stage3 you used.

Darwish · n00b Joined: 13 May 2011 Posts: 15

Problem solved when mounting the volume holding /var/db/pkg

I'm using stage3-amd64-20110428

Here is
#emerge --info
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/389505/

Please tell me if you notice anything wrong.