On Wednesday 22 Jun 2011 13:41:57 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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 :-)

I'd include eselect in this.  There's probably nothing scary about it, but it 
does make me feel nervous when I *have* to use it ...  ;-)
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Regards,
Mick