Someone should rewrite Portage in Rust, so its dependency resolver actually works.
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@phnt i'm functionally stupid with gentoo even though i used it for twenty years. Does the virtual flags actually count? Or is this circular, where if you add the two it wants to sys-libs/zlib it'll throw an error that it should just have minizip?
basically i hate portage, but i make that everyone else's problem, since everyone else made systemd my problem.
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@picofarad The virtual is basically just an OR for dependencies. The USE flags for it should also apply for the dependencies it tries to abstract. But for whatever reason that doesn't work here. It did work previously though.
RDEPEND="
|| (
>=sys-libs/zlib-1.3.1[${MULTILIB_USEDEP},static-libs?]
sys-libs/zlib-ng[${MULTILIB_USEDEP},compat,static-libs(-)?]
)
"
@phnt failures like this are one of the reasons i am seriously considering switching everything to devuan.
I hope you get it sorted.
i'd force it
USE="whatever" emerge -1va =sys-libs/zlib-1.3.31 (or whatever my memory sucks as you see)
And hope they fixed it before the --depclean reaper came through next week.
@picofarad I just duplicated the USE flags in one of the related files with a comment.