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 8DA371384AE for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 11:52:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E3AAFE08E8; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 11:52:26 +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 C4F20E07F5 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 11:52:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 02053186428 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 12:52:24 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 12:52:20 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] update problems Message-ID: <20150920125220.1383b154@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20150920003753.GN1080@ca.inter.net> References: <87eghucic9.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <55FDBE16.1070404@gmail.com> <55FDE5C9.6070801@gmail.com> <20150920003753.GN1080@ca.inter.net> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.12.0-84-g30ac52 (GTK+ 2.24.28; 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_/73wAVM4kBz=2zMBVjkzdghJ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 2627bf72-7f7c-44e5-989e-ad7914b199c4 X-Archives-Hash: 00a0e2d66c4858db201431a695d1c7aa --Sig_/73wAVM4kBz=2zMBVjkzdghJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 20:37:53 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > My impression is that using Portage has become more complicated > & its warning/error messages have not been given the necessary > attention. Complaints or pleas for help like the OP's here are quite > frequent & not all of them come from novices who don't understand what > Gentoo does. >=20 > Portage sb able to report eg >=20 > "Pkg1 & Pkg2 (of Version1 & Version2) can't be installed together ; > Pkg1 is needed for Pkg3, which you already have installed ; > Pkg2 is needed for Pkg4, which you are trying to install. > Please review your needs : you may need to remove a package > temporarily in order for Portage to proceed, then restore a different > version of it". Maybe it should, but if there is no one willing or able to take on this task, it won't. Assuming that the task is a major one, which I think it is, an interim help may be a documentation page that explains the causes of such messages in detail, as is so often done on this list, referenced in the portage output. --=20 Neil Bothwick "Designing pages in HTML is like having sex in a bathtub. If you don't know anything about sex, it won't help to know a lot about bathtubs." --Sig_/73wAVM4kBz=2zMBVjkzdghJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlX+nfQACgkQum4al0N1GQPTEgCg0oReuv1VQ2vPNh9mgXatZPxH 3DoAnRcwqlxvUkc17Rl1+5poY9C+Soqq =Lzyk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/73wAVM4kBz=2zMBVjkzdghJ--