From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QBzPT-0004eO-0w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:07:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F3491C017 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:07:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C96D21C02D for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:48:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxm8 with SMTP id 8so2884953yxm.40 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:48:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=yPphDLjMHPUzNBagGLrIggsVhSeXCXF7ed96i93ViS4=; b=P7AgRtgqaHv6V34nTYMpE7qZaOkaGUeIJReA4n/tvOyZYb8KEP/M+wW0qNW01L+5hu eFVpR+ZZpuv03hRRzbAwrDZdXeCJXWXMZJhUdqVarEN88So7jDhNN5iNxV3kv5Lu8Y4R r1s5lVMC0Ifn6SVEibc16ZHOqPiNM2Ug1PrUU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ZXnDZ2Czj+Y87IHTSKAccQNkG2OJ1wg40BcCDB98t5FLkrFT8P+mzpeiuKn2uj8GiZ ewLmu+8NWTsPOqLv0eSUNsVNgwGFvEVQemUhyCR+CzMn1aqn+PfkYqwhx0qJW+8YgSTJ 321+ZtrB8s8/C9GctGHptdTI23iLFIE/zEjRs= Received: by 10.151.123.20 with SMTP id a20mr4710056ybn.157.1303174090212; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:48:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-118-199.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.118.199]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p41sm1058903ybk.29.2011.04.18.17.48.08 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:48:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DACDBBF.2080501@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:47:59 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.18) Gecko/20110325 Gentoo/2.0.13 SeaMonkey/2.0.13 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please! References: <20110418162145.GA4024@acm.acm> <20110418192606.GF6267@ca.inter.net> <20110418230416.166c29fb@digimed.co.uk> <4DACB8A9.9050809@gmail.com> <20110419013608.1918ad20@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110419013608.1918ad20@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 10405086b6d2665410c1f86893c74e7b Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:18:17 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >> I might add, he has the -p option in there. It's not going to *do* >> anything but show if it will work or not. Then a person can adjust the >> USE settings the correct way and remove the -p option or add -a. I do >> the later myself. >> > > I hadn't noticed the -p, but what will it show? It certainly won't show > whether setting that USE flag globally will correct the error message, as > the pretend emerge is for one package, and not the one causing the > problem. You'd need to emerge -p world for that, and setting USE flags on > the command line for that is even worse. > > > I agree that setting about anything on the command line is a bad idea. However, it is just to test it to see what, if anything, it changes. Dale :-) :-)