Re: [gentoo-user] blocks, Blocks, shrieks

[Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>]

250730 Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On 7/30/25 4:50 AM, Philip Webb wrote:
>> Yes, that's the explanation for the problem.
>> It comes back that I encountered it before some years ago
>> & chose to enable 'su' for 'util-linux'.
>> I've now added lines in 'package.use' to set the flag appropriately
>> & have successfully updated both pkgs.
>> However, I continue to believe that Portage could do a better job
>> in reporting the nature of the problem.
> I agree! :) I believe this is a known issue,
> which I reported at https://bugs.gentoo.org/916462
> Portage's error message wording isn't always the best,
> it would be very nice if it could be improved.

Finally, some support for common sense !

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