Hello all,
As some of you may know, I prefer Openbox to the larger desktop environments. However, I went to install KDE4 today on someone else’s computer, and ran into a problem with circular dependencies involving CUPS, GTK+, poppler, and cmake. The simple solution to the problem is to:
USE=”-cups” emerge -av kdebase-meta
and then go back later and do:
emerge -avuDN world
in order to add in CUPS support.
This issue was actually discussed recently in this thread on the fora. I can’t say whether or not this circular dependency problem will affect stable branch users or not, as I haven’t tried to emerge KDE in such an environment. Also, if you don’t have the cups in your USE flag declarations, you won’t be affected by this problem.
Hope that helps someone.
|:| Zach |:|
2 comments
Thanks for letting me know that the problem does occur on a stable branch machine as well. As I don’t commonly use KDE, this area is not one with which I’m comfortable or all that knowledgeable. I am thinking about adding it as a note to the KDE guide though.
This is what I hit a few times when installing a new *stable* machine…
(As advised in the installation handbook, I pick likely use flags before the first emerge -uDNa world. As soon as they include cups and gtk, booom…)
We discussed the issue on irc once, but nobody really cared about fixing it. Anyway I dont see any clear way to fix it, too…