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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1670223.3B9JZpE7Ee@nazgul> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=7r6XUMK9TrW+xq85HvwgnZXaFLA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday 22 June 2011 14:22:00 Daniel Pielmeier did opine thusly:
> > Portage has always displayed the latter right? That makes sense
> > - you can see what the emerge command would do as entered and
> > compare it to the error to see what the problem is. In this
> > case it's a tweak to package.use which I'm perfectly happy to
> > do.
> > 
> > I think it's bug time, portage is displaying the wrong output
> > for
> > failures.
> 
> You can try if you get the desired output if FEATURES="-autounmask".
> If you enable autounmask portage automatically enableds the
> required changes and tells you the changes required to your
> configuration.

It is unset here (well, it's not set, actually - same thing)

I'm a sysadmin, I have an inherent distrust of all things software and 
automagic-config-changers are scary things indeed :-)


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-22 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-22  8:18 [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE? Alan McKinnon
2011-06-22  8:49 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2011-06-22  9:15   ` Alan McKinnon
2011-06-22  9:31     ` Daniel Pielmeier
2011-06-22  9:50       ` Alan McKinnon
2011-06-22  9:47 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-06-22  9:53   ` Alan McKinnon
2011-06-22 10:43     ` Neil Bothwick
2011-06-22 11:54       ` Alan McKinnon
2011-06-22 12:22         ` Daniel Pielmeier
2011-06-22 12:41           ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2011-06-22 14:19             ` Mick
2011-06-22 14:44             ` Neil Bothwick
2011-06-22 15:31               ` Alan McKinnon
2011-06-22 16:05                 ` Mick
2011-06-22 16:22                 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-06-22 16:30                 ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-06-22 16:59                   ` Alan McKinnon
2011-06-23 11:31                   ` Daniel Pielmeier
2011-06-23 19:40                     ` Alan McKinnon
2011-06-22 17:11                 ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-06-22 18:22                   ` Dale
2011-06-22 19:16                     ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-06-22 20:12                       ` Alan McKinnon
2011-06-22 22:35                         ` Mick
2011-06-22 22:58                       ` Neil Bothwick
2011-06-23  1:35                         ` Matthew Finkel
2011-06-23  6:59                         ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-06-23 19:38                           ` Alan McKinnon
2011-06-23 22:06                             ` Neil Bothwick
2011-06-23 22:31                               ` Alan McKinnon
2011-06-23 22:56                                 ` Mike Edenfield
2011-06-24  0:05                                   ` Neil Bothwick
2011-06-24  0:10                                 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-06-24  8:00                                   ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-06-23 20:05                           ` Yohan Pereira
2011-06-24  8:11                             ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-06-22 10:48   ` Daniel Pielmeier
2011-06-22 11:57     ` Alan McKinnon

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