Re: [gentoo-user] Please help me understand this emerge error message.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Kusoneko wrote:
> Aug 11, 2023 15:48:22 Arsen Arsenović <arsen@gentoo.org>:
>
>> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>>
>>> Hello, Gentoo.
>>>
>>> For the past couple of days, after $ emerge --sync, I've tried
>>>
>>>     $ emerge -auND @world
>>>
>>> ..  It has come back very quickly with the error message:
>>>
>>> #########################################################################
>>>
>>> !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy ">=net-misc/curl-7.21.5[ssl]" has unmet requirements.
>>> - net-misc/curl-8.1.2::gentoo USE="adns ftp gnutls http2 imap pop3 progress-meter smtp ssl tftp -alt-svc -brotli -gopher -hsts -idn -kerberos -ldap -mbedtls (-nghttp3) -nss -openssl -rtmp (-rustls) -samba -ssh (-sslv3) -static-libs -telnet
>>> -test -verify-sig -websockets -zstd" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" CURL_SSL="openssl -gnutls -mbedtls -nss (-rustls)"
>>>
>>>   The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied:
>>>     curl_ssl_openssl? ( openssl )
>> A REQUIRED_USE of 'X? ( Y Z )' means that if X is set, Y and Z must be
>> set.  In boolean algebra, it can be expressed as a X => ( Y AND Z ).
>>
>> See https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Required_USE_flags
>>
>> Hope that helps, have a lovely day.
>>
> To add to this, essentially what it's saying is either to change the USE flags of curl to include openssl or to change the CURL_SSL flag to "-openssl gnutls" (by adding "-curl_ssl_openssl curl_ssl_gnutls" to curl's USE flags) so that it aligns with your current curl USE flags.
>
>


That's a much better explanation than mine.  Me, I just beat it with a
hammer until it works.  ROFLMBO 

Dale

:-)  :-)