Re: [gentoo-user] curses of ncurses :(

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

On Thursday, August 27, 2015 05:33:33 PM Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 27/08/2015 17:25, gevisz wrote:
> > 2015-08-27 17:52 GMT+03:00 Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de>:

> > P.S. I have too much "required by" lines. So, if the portage will not
> > 
> >        resolve this issue automatically, I will stop to update my system
> >        at all.
> 
> I don't think that's the right attitude, portage really only needs to
> tell you the first one.
> 
> What is happening is two SLOTs of the same package want to be updated,
> but the specific versions block each other (this is definitely a bug of
> some kind as the whole point of SLOTs is you *can* have both)
> 
> So portage is telling you that it can't do what it wants to do with
> ncurses as there is a blocker. It needs to update ncurses because procps
> wants it. And so does Vim. And gvim, zsh, ruby and more. Why so many?
> Because ncurses is a very basic piece of code and lots of things use it,
> and portage blindly printed all of them
> 
> You only have one error. The 50 or more Required lines are total noise
> at this point and distract you from seeing things in the proper light.
> Portage is well known for often giving really sucky output, this is such
> a time.
> 
> Fix the real error, and all that junk on the screen goes away. No reason
> to stop updating.

I only had 1 required by set.
Which basically got me to remove the llvm use-flag from mesa.

That solved the block for me as it ended up removing "llvm"

What is "llvm" actually used for?

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Joost