Circular Dependencies?

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Rroet · Post by **Rroet** » Fri Jul 19, 2002 9:10 pm

Hi people, seems like I have a bad case of circular dependencies.. anybody else experiencing them? I installed cups and ghostscript on my machine and l8er on I installed winex.

Now this night I did a emerge rsync and it said I had a circular dependency, Cups required Ghostscript.... Winex required cups, and ghostscript required cups... so cups and ghostscript keep requireing eachother.. I fixed it manually already, but maybe the authors of the packages can be warned so they can fix it..... Thnx in advance

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 12:10 am

-edited for clarity-

The problem is worse than just CUPS and Ghostscript. It affects anything that relies upon either piece of software, and that can get pretty messy:

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root@lothlann etc # emerge --pretend --emptytree world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order.

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
!!! Error: circular dependencies:

ebuild / kde-base/kde-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdegames-3.0.2
ebuild / net-print/cups-1.1.15-r2 depends on ebuild / app-text/ghostscript-7.05.3-r1
ebuild / kde-base/kdelibs-3.0.2-r1 depends on ebuild / app-text/ghostscript-7.05.3-r1
ebuild / kde-base/kde-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdeedu-3.0.2
ebuild / kde-base/kdebase-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / net-fs/samba-2.2.5
ebuild / kde-base/kde-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdeutils-3.0.2
ebuild / kde-base/kde-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdeadmin-3.0.2
ebuild / kde-base/kdeaddons-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.0.2
ebuild / kde-base/kde-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.0.2
ebuild / kde-base/kde-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdetoys-3.0.2
ebuild / app-cdr/k3b-0.7 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdelibs-3.0.2-r1
ebuild / kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdelibs-3.0.2-r1
ebuild / kde-base/kdeaddons-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdelibs-3.0.2-r1
ebuild / kde-base/kdebase-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdelibs-3.0.2-r1
ebuild / kde-base/kdenetwork-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdelibs-3.0.2-r1
ebuild / kde-base/kdepim-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdelibs-3.0.2-r1
ebuild / kde-base/kdeadmin-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdelibs-3.0.2-r1
ebuild / kde-base/kdeartwork-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdelibs-3.0.2-r1
ebuild / kde-base/kdegames-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdelibs-3.0.2-r1
ebuild / kde-base/kdetoys-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdelibs-3.0.2-r1
ebuild / kde-base/kde-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdelibs-3.0.2-r1
ebuild / kde-base/kdegraphics-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdelibs-3.0.2-r1
ebuild / kde-base/kdeedu-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdelibs-3.0.2-r1
ebuild / kde-base/kdeutils-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdelibs-3.0.2-r1
ebuild / media-libs/xine-lib-0.9.12-r1 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdelibs-3.0.2-r1
ebuild / media-gfx/pixieplus-kde-0.3-r1 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdelibs-3.0.2-r1
ebuild / kde-base/kde-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdeaddons-3.0.2
ebuild / media-video/xine-dvdnav-0.9.12 depends on ebuild / media-libs/xine-lib-0.9.12-r1
ebuild / media-video/xine-ui-0.9.12 depends on ebuild / media-libs/xine-lib-0.9.12-r1
ebuild / kde-base/kdeaddons-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdenetwork-3.0.2
ebuild / kde-base/kde-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdenetwork-3.0.2
ebuild / kde-base/kde-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdegraphics-3.0.2
ebuild / kde-base/kdeaddons-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdebase-3.0.2
ebuild / kde-base/kdeartwork-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdebase-3.0.2
ebuild / kde-base/kde-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdebase-3.0.2
ebuild / media-gfx/pixieplus-kde-0.3-r1 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdebase-3.0.2
ebuild / kde-base/kde-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdeartwork-3.0.2
ebuild / kde-base/kde-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / kde-base/kdepim-3.0.2
ebuild / kde-base/kdelibs-3.0.2-r1 depends on ebuild / net-print/cups-1.1.15-r2
ebuild / app-text/ghostscript-7.05.3-r1 depends on ebuild / net-print/cups-1.1.15-r2
ebuild / net-fs/samba-2.2.5 depends on ebuild / net-print/cups-1.1.15-r2
ebuild / kde-base/kdebase-3.0.2 depends on ebuild / net-print/cups-1.1.15-r2

What happen ?
Somebody set up Portage tree the bomb !

Commenting out the ghostscript dependency in CUPS "fixes" this here, but that seems less of a fix than a nasty, destabilizing hack.

Lasker · Post by **Lasker** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 1:01 am

Seems to be fixed. I had the same problem (cups/ghostscript).
Just made a emerge rsync --clean then emerge cups again (unmerged both cups and ghostscript before).

Post by **klieber** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 9:41 am

Locking this thread in favor of this one which describes the same problem.

--kurt