Hi,

after "emerge --sync" today, and "emerge -auv @world", I got the
message:

emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy ">=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.09[cups]".
!!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request:
- app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.55.0-r1::gentoo (Change USE: +cups)
(dependency required by "net-print/cups-filters-1.28.10-r3::gentoo[postscript]" [ebuild])
(dependency required by "net-print/cups-2.3.3_p2-r3::gentoo" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "dev-java/openjdk-11.0.14_p9-r1::gentoo" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "virtual/jdk-11-r2::gentoo" [ebuild])
(dependency required by "@selected" [set])
(dependency required by "@world" [argument])

But:

- the cups USE flag is globally disabled (and nowhere locally
enabled);
- since this is a virtual server, no printers at all are used/
connected/configured.

I could run emerge with USE="cups", but in this case ~30 new
packages would be installed (many, many "libXsomething" among
them). And I would have a completely useless printing system.

How do I get rid of all those cups things?

Thanks,

-Matt

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On Saturday, 2 April 2022 08:32:08 BST Matthias Hanft wrote:

Hi,

after "emerge --sync" today, and "emerge -auv @world", I got the
message:

emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy ">=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.09[cups]". !!! One of the following packages
is required to complete your request: - app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.55.0-r1::gentoo (Change USE: +cups)
(dependency required by "net-print/cups-filters-1.28.10-r3::gentoo[postscript]" [ebuild])
(dependency required by "net-print/cups-2.3.3_p2-r3::gentoo" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "dev-java/openjdk-11.0.14_p9-r1::gentoo" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "virtual/jdk-11-r2::gentoo" [ebuild])
(dependency required by "@selected" [set])
(dependency required by "@world" [argument])

But:

- the cups USE flag is globally disabled (and nowhere locally
enabled);
- since this is a virtual server, no printers at all are used/
connected/configured.

I could run emerge with USE="cups", but in this case ~30 new
packages would be installed (many, many "libXsomething" among
them). And I would have a completely useless printing system.

How do I get rid of all those cups things?

Thanks,

-Matt

Did you try running emerge with '--tree' to see the dependency tree with all its dependencies? (The option '--deep' may show more dependencies too).

I have cups set here but don't have java. This is what I get when I set USE="-cups"

~ $ USE="-cups" emerge -upv dev-java/openjdk app-text/ghostscript-gpl

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] app-eselect/eselect-java-0.4.3::gentoo 14 KiB
[ebuild N ] app-crypt/p11-kit-0.23.22::gentoo USE="asn1 libffi trust - debug -systemd" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 811 KiB
[ebuild N ] sys-apps/baselayout-java-0.1.0-r1::gentoo 71 KiB
[ebuild N ] dev-java/java-config-2.3.1:2::gentoo USE="-test" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_9 -python3_8 -python3_10" 26 KiB
[ebuild N ] dev-java/openjdk-bin-17.0.2_p8:17::gentoo USE="alsa -cups (- gentoo-vm) -headless-awt (-selinux) -source" 187,541 KiB
[ebuild N ] dev-java/openjdk-17.0.2_p8:17::gentoo USE="alsa jbootstrap (system-bootstrap) (-big-endian) -cups -debug -doc -examples (-gentoo-vm) - headless-awt (-javafx) (-selinux) -source -systemtap" 102,288 KiB

which doesn't appear to disagree with the "-cups" flag.
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On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 09:32:08AM +0200, Matthias Hanft wrote

Hi,

after "emerge --sync" today, and "emerge -auv @world", I got the
message:

emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy ">=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.09[cups]".
!!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request:
- app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.55.0-r1::gentoo (Change USE: +cups)
(dependency required by "net-print/cups-filters-1.28.10-r3::gentoo[postscript]" [ebuild])
(dependency required by "net-print/cups-2.3.3_p2-r3::gentoo" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "dev-java/openjdk-11.0.14_p9-r1::gentoo" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "virtual/jdk-11-r2::gentoo" [ebuild])
(dependency required by "@selected" [set])
(dependency required by "@world" [argument])

But:

- the cups USE flag is globally disabled (and nowhere locally
enabled);
- since this is a virtual server, no printers at all are used/
connected/configured.

I could run emerge with USE="cups", but in this case ~30 new
packages would be installed (many, many "libXsomething" among
them). And I would have a completely useless printing system.

How do I get rid of all those cups things?

You can't. cups is more unwanted/unnecessary bloatware weasling its
way in just like systemd and sphinx. I also have cups as a requirement
for app-text/ghostscript-gpl as well as for google-chrome, which I use
99% for Netflix. Pale Moon is my "daily driver" browser.

--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 12:06:22 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:

You can't. cups is more unwanted/unnecessary bloatware weasling its
way in just like systemd and sphinx. I also have cups as a requirement
for app-text/ghostscript-gpl as well as for google-chrome, which I use
99% for Netflix. Pale Moon is my "daily driver" browser.

google-chrome is Google's binary version, o Gentoo devs have no control
over the dependencies. With chromium, there is a cups USE flag, but you
have to put up with long compile times.


--
Neil Bothwick

Oops. My brain just hit a bad sector.

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Michael wrote:

Did you try running emerge with '--tree' to see the dependency tree with all its dependencies? (The option '--deep' may show more dependencies too).

Meanwhile I have found out that the culprit is "virtual/jdk". I have 1.8.0-r6 installed, and emerge wants to upgrade to 11-r2 (strange versioning, isn't it?).

Apparently, I have neither "openjdk" nor "openjdk-bin" installed, but "icedtea- bin". Upgrading virtual/jdk to 11 seems to insist on some openjdk...

"equery g virtual/jdk" says for the two versions in question:

* dependency graph for virtual/jdk-1.8.0-r6
`-- virtual/jdk-1.8.0-r6 x86
`-- dev-java/openjdk-bin-8.322_p06 (dev-java/openjdk-bin) [missing keyword] [headless-awt=]
`-- dev-java/openjdk-8.322_p06 (dev-java/openjdk) x86 [headless-awt=]
`-- dev-java/icedtea-bin-3.16.0 (dev-java/icedtea-bin) x86 [headless-awt=]
`-- dev-java/icedtea-3.21.0 (dev-java/icedtea) [~x86 keyword] [headless-awt=]
[ virtual/jdk-1.8.0-r6 stats: packages (5), max depth (1) ]

* dependency graph for virtual/jdk-11-r2
`-- virtual/jdk-11-r2 M[package.mask]
`-- dev-java/openjdk-bin-11.0.14_p9-r1 (dev-java/openjdk-bin) [missing keyword] [gentoo-vm(+) headless-awt=]
`-- dev-java/openjdk-11.0.14_p9-r1 (dev-java/openjdk) x86 [gentoo-vm(+) headless-awt=]
[ virtual/jdk-11-r2 stats: packages (3), max depth (1) ]

so it seems that virtual/jdk 11 can't/doesn't want to use icedtea-bin and needs openjdk[-bin] which requires cups in any case...

Do I need virtual/jdk at all? I don't even develop Java software - all I need is some Java runtime which I can call from the command line by "java -jar blabla.jar".

For the moment, I have masked >=virtual/jdk-10

-Matt

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