Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why

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On 13/12/2020 21:02, n952162 wrote:
> My problem is I can't find a diagnostic methodology.  The one I most
> often hear is, update more often, or trail and error solutions.
> 
Although I haven't yet had the grief of something like this python 
thing, I've always found that unmerging everything that clashes (with 
care not to break emerge), or updating everything that will update, has 
always worked for me in the past.

> Does all that information in emerge's output point the way to the
> problem, and I just have to learn to understand it,  or am I just
> wasting my time there?  Are there better tools than log parsing? I know,
> there are lots of good tools,  but there needs to be methodology for
> using them (like understanding gentoo ;-) )

Isn't that one of the major points of gentoo - that you need to 
understand what you're doing?

One more tip I'll give you. In package.use, a lot of your lines start 
with ">=". That means "any package equal or newer". If you change that 
to "=", it'll fix the current problem, but it'll come back with the next 
upgrade (or not). If you're having troubles upgrading anyway, getting 
rid of the ">" on stuff that's already problematic might make the 
underlying problem easier to understand. Especially if it's python :-)

Cheers,
Wol