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 E15B3138CC5 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 21:54:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 66EA9E0874; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 21:54:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-f175.google.com (mail-qc0-f175.google.com [209.85.216.175]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 51E4FE084E for ; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 21:54:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qcto4 with SMTP id o4so132025091qct.3 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 14:54:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=cEc0N30xH6VqpJ3OhcyI0HXdgAD03g6lTMonj8rXjuA=; b=oP/Iz/XimhMjwd87Oos2ybE3QxeQUjIxSzy51BoiwKYpDgxBIxkhosV7THhlTWUBJX kixZOfsqvv6XXn5D4WZVNHthpdEiOAoKbJ6Of3Tk1LWNdaMg51tLsEgjB+o5vZHg0eC5 iROtKHj1L3qFZjG0kSXkaF7jYOorXf6pO36jQOHaQY2bK7u4MgkuoPlPuAw5L6b7oGwo DiLFZoqtWeYMlOHju92ymoBewXiLI/UOJuiznFMBbc+meq+fwtaS1lyTf5VKtSQlnI4+ 2vIdZ2cy3S7GLTjIv0o00dXDkQFccOLVlhKEvJA5l/FvJYCPMG2GeUKZHZBM7fKA3dvS ppYw== X-Received: by 10.55.26.91 with SMTP id a88mr168667906qka.0.1427061262575; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 14:54:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-117-248.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.117.248]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id 78sm7853293qkx.24.2015.03.22.14.54.21 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 22 Mar 2015 14:54:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <550F3A0C.6010407@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 16:54:20 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 SeaMonkey/2.32.1 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] Re: blockage References: <87bnjl1zpq.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <550E8A48.9040409@gmail.com> <87zj75z4xw.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <550EA825.9030605@gmail.com> <87619tkwtf.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <550ED96E.1090300@gentoo.org> <87k2y8zz03.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <550F3299.9090500@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <550F3299.9090500@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ee41a3a7-72c7-4324-92bb-4f2770816bd4 X-Archives-Hash: 06db2caff3769e7c051a8af2fc5dc46a Alan McKinnon wrote: > Sadly, you don't know. There is no clue in any of the output you > posted that this is required, so your only solution is to ask the > collective memory of the community. Lucky for you and others, Jonathan > was aware of the problem and was kind enough to post the solution. > This is one of the things that is starting to real get on my damn tits > about portage, for about 2 years now. It's not an easy problem to > solve, and to be honest, portage is not helping at all. You have two > options in running it: don't use -v and get very little info, or use > -v and get a terminal dump of the entire graph tree with lots of stuff > and zero real information about how to solve it. Look at my thread > with Dale just the other day, I managed to help him with the correct > answer because I had a magic brainwave to search for the "<" > character. Seriously, what kind of process would ever use that as a > problem solving approach? In your case, the solution is in the ebuild > for acpupsd and it's specific DEPENDs. Now, I'm generally OK with > looking in ebuilds for real answers and have gotten used to it, but > ffs I should not have to do that. Well-written software should provide > that information in it's output, and it shouldn't be hard to get the > software to do it. Ok, rant over. +1 and you dang skippy, pat on the back etc etc etc. Dale :-) :-)