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 1QC5aa-0000eg-Gp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:43:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A83D81C0B7; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:41:39 +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 45E661C0B7 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:41:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 278C880256 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:41:38 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:41:32 +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: <20110419084132.4227cf52@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4DACDBBF.2080501@gmail.com> References: <20110418162145.GA4024@acm.acm> <20110418192606.GF6267@ca.inter.net> <20110418230416.166c29fb@digimed.co.uk> <4DACB8A9.9050809@gmail.com> <20110419013608.1918ad20@digimed.co.uk> <4DACDBBF.2080501@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_/OVO5qgMLgqUDtGgm9R9VUlt"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 1bb3fc800254d0104d018c5d1e9617d7 --Sig_/OVO5qgMLgqUDtGgm9R9VUlt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:47:59 -0500, Dale wrote: > > 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. > I agree that setting about anything on the command line is a bad idea. =20 > However, it is just to test it to see what, if anything, it changes. But it doesn't tell you if setting the flag solves the problem, because it doesn't attempt to emerge the package that failed. As a test it fails. --=20 Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 5: Twelve-ounce pound cake --Sig_/OVO5qgMLgqUDtGgm9R9VUlt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk2tPLEACgkQum4al0N1GQMFYwCePpXJxd3If4jDLtH4/g/YeEEs wXsAoKRupX1I8VdKRP1WrglIsTnFyuiU =rIpG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/OVO5qgMLgqUDtGgm9R9VUlt--