Alan McKinnon wrote:

>
> Please post the output of revdep-rebuild -p -i
>
> Do these various packages require specifically gstreamer-0.8? If so,
> that is a bug and should be rpeorted at b.g.o. In general, unmerging
> gstreamer-0.8 will cause other things linked to it to now not work, so
> I reckon you will suffer some fallout if you just unmerge it.
>
> A good safety net will be to look into the portage cache in /var/db/pkg,
> you will find a copy of the current gstreamer-0.8 ebuild you are using
> there. Copy it to your local overlay so you can remerge it if
> necessary. Do the same with any plugins that are also not in portage
> anymore
>
Thank you all for the replies, greatly appreciated.

Having followed your recommendations I found thet :
emerge -Cp gstreamer showed only gstreamer-0.10. No matter what I tried,
no way of unmerging -0.8.. I then added search mask in make.conf so that
 revdep-rebuild does not search /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8 and finally
removed 0.8 manually. I've had to rebuild a couple of packages (for now)
and all seems to be fine except I can no longer run tvtime, kdetv nor xawtv.

xawtv reports:
This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.23-gentoo-r9)
WARNING: v4l-conf is compiled without DGA support.
/dev/video0 [v4l2]: no overlay support
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b
game over
kdetv reports nothing and I can not stop the process. Even using top and
"k" followed by PID of kdetv.

I'm sure I have to rebuild something, just not quite sure what.

I've re-emerged all three with no change. Where do I look?
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