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List:       gentoo-desktop
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-desktop] 8 days now!!
From:       Bo =?iso-8859-1?q?=D8rsted_Andresen?= <bo.andresen () zlin ! dk>
Date:       2007-02-05 13:46:28
Message-ID: 200702051446.31798.bo.andresen () zlin ! dk
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On Monday 05 February 2007 14:38:22 YoYo Siska wrote:
> A word of advice: if you are trying to reinstall an older system, don't
> copy over all the use flags at the beginning and then try to build the
> whole system at once. It creates a lot of problems (cyclic dependencies,
> compile problems). It used to work some time ago, but when I tried to
> reinstall my old computer from scratch for my parents a month ago, I
> just had to take it nice and slow.... (to gentoo-devs: sorry, I had no
> time to go through it and post bugs...)
>
> Instead emerge the basic system first with the standard use flags, then
> add new and recompile

I'm not really sure those are bugs anyway. Portage 2.1.1 (stable) doesn't 
handle cyclic deps too well. Portage 2.1.2 (~arch) does, however, detect 
cyclic deps. It still doesn't circumvent them but it does make it a lot 
easier to find out how to work around it (usually by temporarily disabling a 
use flag). Portage 2.1.2 will go stable soon..

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Bo Andresen

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