On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:12:26 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> > !!! The following update(s) have been skipped due to unsatisfied
> > dependencies
> > !!! triggered by backtracking:
> > 
> > net-libs/libpcap:0  
> 
> 
> It means you got tripped up by portage's New! Improved! Awesome!
> internal invisible magic. Subslots started it all and portage has to
> wade through tons of cruft to figure out the entire dependency tree. In
> a nutshell, it keeps searching deeper and deeper until it finds an
> answer that works, or until it hits a threshold. When it hits that
> threshold, portage exits and says it went as far as it should and has
> now given up.

And in true portage tradition it tells you in a way that is factually
accurate yet totally uninformative unless you already understand what
happened.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Death is proven to be 99.9% fatal to all laboratory rats.