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WTF is remove_depends doing in a spell? That's for internal use only and
was removed in the last libdepends rewrite.

On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 17:20, Duane Malcolm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I did  a fresh install this weekend and came up with a few problems.
> 
> During the rebuild modutils failed. Later, when xfree86 4.3 failed, 
> missing yylex variable, or something like that. I found if I downgraded 
> flex from 2.5.31 to 2.5.27 both these installed fine.
> 
> Next problem was when installing gnome-2-desktop-profile, gtk+2 would 
> fail because it couldn't find pango. So I quit installing 
> gnome-2-desktop-profile, installed pango and restarted installing 
> gnome-2-desktop-profile. This time gtk+2 installed fine. Should pango be 
> made a dependency of gtk+2? I've noticed this in the past, I would get a 
> lot of failed spells when installing gnome-2-desktop-profile, but not 
> the second time, I assume it's because pango was installed later.
> 
> Finally, I had trouble installing libglade2, in the PRE_BUILD it tries 
> to install Python, but it couldn't find the "remove_depends" command, so 
> I commented this out of the file. Even with this it took a while for 
> libglade to restart compilation while installing Python, I checked the 
> processor usage for casting Python and it was zero for a while so I quit 
> this and removed the PRE_BUILD file, knowing that Python-expat was 
> installed. I think I was just being impatient. Anyway, just a note on 
> the remove-depends command.
> 
> Now everything is installed, bar a couple of spells and I can get X to 
> start but can't get gdm to start. I'll keep working away at it. Will 
> keep you posted.
> 
> Cheers, Duane
> 
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