From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5A3C13877A for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:54:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 87F79E1AA8; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:54:19 +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 6344EE1A99 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:54:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1567224323 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:54:16 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:54:11 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] triggered by backtracking - what does that mean? Message-ID: <20140725105411.5fb9fa21@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <53D21F7A.2090906@gmail.com> References: <1406202420.21481.0@numa-i> <53D21F7A.2090906@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1-119-g7fbc83 (GTK+ 2.24.24; 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_/KW3l_wl++jPYn80.mEj5uc."; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 29f16cef-a2b6-40d2-b115-4f6cd248a79a X-Archives-Hash: f52ee4b1d164a8b969bfb8715371f53f --Sig_/KW3l_wl++jPYn80.mEj5uc. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: > >=20 > > net-libs/libpcap:0 =20 >=20 >=20 > 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick Death is proven to be 99.9% fatal to all laboratory rats. --Sig_/KW3l_wl++jPYn80.mEj5uc. Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlPSKUcACgkQum4al0N1GQNMvACfSzX+u+PLpj30ADy7jyHopuGT casAn2KBNO62mOrkJPMc4HiN/UWw8rZL =2nM0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/KW3l_wl++jPYn80.mEj5uc.--