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 1QCCpY-0007Nj-Kx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:27:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AC261C00F; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:25:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yi0-f53.google.com (mail-yi0-f53.google.com [209.85.218.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DC421C00F for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:25:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yia25 with SMTP id 25so3113700yia.40 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:25:26 -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=8LWCprt9NAxXbRYx5OSR6Y/PNJPjFP/SsOoX+cfb/fo=; b=iUtTcDpAf5/k8vGvIL9lXSizCroBVkA1wijy+Q8y1c4X/YegzeQNjbREI9cnfJXPyd a6q0Xx6XM0e85E6IQHyz2yeKndqzijkCh065y5Ur7LBSZZQKyqDnP9lEJnf5qUf6OmiK sPwpka+vpkUhIRWMLldB/pL0KRdLPyRCvnbJQ= 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=ldV8uxEr8nnDddKR0OK/jRghZOWrftumG1aHOpUzQJsb0Wr3ML2N4+ZkG9xl4PWhwJ BN7NJH4MyMu/XLE27LZ/GU+Mf5YtjlwuN+hgEmIziQhrZKLtJq/x0DTttaCERnvVZixU ZrJhiQHQxkw+dRlsR3JBFIStPUpQAcRWisAtI= Received: by 10.236.114.132 with SMTP id c4mr2476965yhh.107.1303226726415; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:25:26 -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 u7sm2753809yhn.92.2011.04.19.08.25.24 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:25:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DADA963.8040409@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:25:23 -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> <4DACDBBF.2080501@gmail.com> <20110419084132.4227cf52@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110419084132.4227cf52@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 097bc43d0457e29ec23937c563611f3e Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:47:59 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >>> 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. >> > But it doesn't tell you if setting the flag solves the problem, because > it doesn't attempt to emerge the package that failed. As a test it fails. > > > Then I guess your mileage may vary then. Dale :-) :-)