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 1QCHdM-0006I9-Ax for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:34:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 936AE1C031; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:32:27 +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 592F81C031 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:32:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yia25 with SMTP id 25so32005yia.40 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:32:26 -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=s+4AKJhkejp/Xz1QC+/m5puK10YP7qFtJo55xngyztc=; b=avOdrpsABQmaXl4sqY7ZoVaPHp/Dv+bJxnXjsXlOIH6LZBKapyjVwYUOMZUONoa1mS nnofdGbLlPFyYX29gHjbZbanPWWufwmKGYnxQ6nmE0FIdxd+v53WIX85JpEUbW3kK02+ FWsY8vX0yC3Qfexgr3SC+DLw8cvlg9I03fApo= 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=JNfItuLxkl0H6OWCBTIIdnAfvfrNYjHoPrP3/3OJ+iNsnP3ugIx+bwhlxO9doWzK9p vN45J6OeIHJHUNtgWkTrpFPKM6l9+w0zzs7M4kYPvNHyoTjNst4Joyf30L5UCElAZLX/ VhyAn+R9fQDlPjwwzDWAIlzbu5iJ49Q7/wLco= Received: by 10.236.184.10 with SMTP id r10mr5295287yhm.235.1303245146669; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:32:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-93-52.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.93.52]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p62sm125299yhm.91.2011.04.19.13.32.25 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:32:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DADF158.1030601@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:32:24 -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> <4DADA963.8040409@gmail.com> <20110419205946.3fd6a1ba@digimed.co.uk> <201104192215.34947.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201104192215.34947.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a417158a00af72d140010e84268bfc29 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 21:59 on Tuesday 19 April 2011, Neil Bothwick > did opine thusly: > > >> On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:25:23 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >>>>> 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. >>> >> Oh no. Emerging one package to see how another package emerges will give >> exactly the same result every time, not an inch of variation :( >> > > You're forgetting about what the cosmic rays, solar flares and quarks clear > across the universe can do > > Yep. It's not like we haven't seen portage do some odd things before either. Dale :-) :-)