On 12/30/2009 12:11 PM, Robert Bradbury wrote:
> For the last week or so, there have been packages in the "world"
> distribution list which previously installed fine which currently do
> not, these include ruby-gdkpixbuf2, ruby-pango, ruby-gtk2,
> ruby-gnomecanvas2, ruby-gnome2 and ruby-libglade2 (this is on an x86
> system).  My reading of the bug reports suggest that this is a problem
> with the ruby/gentoo config scripts.  If so, ok fine, then pull them
> from the "world" distribution until such scripts/ebuilds/patches are
> available.  Please do not leave them in the world distribution list when
> they are known to be defective.  It appears that there may be some
> oversight/direction lacking with respect to what makes up the QA with
> respect to distributed (e.g. "approved") packages which have known problems.
> 

You need to understand what the world set means. The world set is the
packages in /var/lib/portage/world and the sets from
/var/lib/portage/world_sets . From this follows that we can't change the
content of the world set as it's a user specific configuration issue.
Just make sure nothing in those files pulls in the packages that you
have issues with and they are no longer part of your world set. What
really should happen is that bug reports are filed on things that don't
build and they are package.masked if they can't be fixed in a reasonable
time frame.

Regards,
Petteri