From: raph@mankin.org.uk   
      
   I have also been bitten by this one. There appears to be an error in the   
   ebuilds arising from an incompatibility between certain versions of   
   gentoolkit and certain versions of python. The dependencies in the   
   ebuild need to be sorted out.   
      
      
      
      
   On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 20:15 +0100, Mark Hobley wrote:   
   > I tried to update my gentoo system using emerge world, as follows:   
   >   
   > emerge -uDN world   
   >   
   > The update abort as follows:   
   >   
   >  * Messages for package www-client/seamonkey-1.1.11:   
   >   
   >  * Pango is not built with X useflag.   
   >  * Please add 'X' to your USE flags, and re-emerge pango.   
   >  *   
   >  * ERROR: www-client/seamonkey-1.1.11 failed.   
   >  * Call stack:   
   >  *                 ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called pkg_setup   
   >  *   seamonkey-1.1.11.ebuild, line   53:  Called die   
   >  * The specific snippet of code:   
   >  *             die "Pango needs X"   
   >  *  The die message:   
   >  *   Pango needs X   
   >   
   > Hmmm, as far as I know, my seamonkey browser should have the moznopango   
   > flag set. I decided to look at the flags for the package, so I typed:   
   >   
   > equery uses seamonkey   
   >   
   > This gave an error:   
   >   
   > Traceback (most recent call last):   
   >   File "/usr/bin/equery", line 27, in    
   >     import gentoolkit   
   >   File "/usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym/gentoolkit/__init__.py", line 27, in   
   >    
   >     from threading import Lock   
   >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/threading.py", line 6, in    
   >     import thread   
   > ImportError: No module named thread   
   >   
   > Hmmm, maybe the gentoolkit has not been rebuilt yet. I decided to try   
   > and build it:   
   >   
   > emerge gentoolkit   
   >   
   > Ok, that looked like it built ok. I try using it:   
   >   
   > equery uses seamonkey   
   >   
   > Nahhh, its still knackered:   
   >   
   > Traceback (most recent call last):   
   >   File "/usr/bin/equery", line 27, in    
   >     import gentoolkit   
   >   File "/usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym/gentoolkit/__init__.py", line 27, in   
   >    
   >     from threading import Lock   
   >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/threading.py", line 6, in    
   >     import thread   
   > ImportError: No module named thread   
   >   
   > What is going on?   
   >   
   > Presumably, I need to hold the seamonkey package, whilst I emerge world,   
   > and then look again at the problem.   
   >   
   > How do I hold the package? (Or do I just uninstall it, and then   
   > reinstall it following emerge world?)   
   >   
   > Please advise.   
   >   
   > Mark.   
   >   
      
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