From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QBzMc-0004JQ-55 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:04:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 779911C0F5 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:04:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3317F1C02F for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:36:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0B6F3802BC for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:36:14 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:36:08 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please! Message-ID: <20110419013608.1918ad20@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4DACB8A9.9050809@gmail.com> References: <20110418162145.GA4024@acm.acm> <20110418192606.GF6267@ca.inter.net> <20110418230416.166c29fb@digimed.co.uk> <4DACB8A9.9050809@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9cvs12 (GTK+ 2.24.3; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/VEdCEUEoMqrVvCTNpS1xAhJ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ced36ff842b3d03467287a1e929000d0 --Sig_/VEdCEUEoMqrVvCTNpS1xAhJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:18:17 -0500, Dale wrote: > I might add, he has the -p option in there. It's not going to *do*=20 > anything but show if it will work or not. Then a person can adjust the=20 > USE settings the correct way and remove the -p option or add -a. I do=20 > the later myself. I hadn't noticed the -p, but what will it show? It certainly won't show whether setting that USE flag globally will correct the error message, as the pretend emerge is for one package, and not the one causing the problem. You'd need to emerge -p world for that, and setting USE flags on the command line for that is even worse. --=20 Neil Bothwick Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment destroyed. --Sig_/VEdCEUEoMqrVvCTNpS1xAhJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk2s2PwACgkQum4al0N1GQPswQCgiNO1ZWqHTK7BpKItOej56gkC rvUAniDaGEJAdwN5Q5nU242E3zTxRHOP =+b98 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/VEdCEUEoMqrVvCTNpS1xAhJ--