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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 'emerge --update @world -pv' keeps trying to upgrade to a masked package
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 00:58:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <561DEF20.5060804@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <561DEB50.4020203@gmail.com>

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 14/10/2015 03:53, Dale wrote:
>>
>> I started to post that it looked like some other package was pulling it
>> in but portage's output is sometimes cryptic at best.  Sometimes I can
>> figure it out but usually, I have to get Alan or Neil to pull out their
>> magic decoder ring and uncrypt the thing. 
>>
>> Anyway, glad you got it sorted out and all is well again. 
>
> To figure out that "required by/pulled in by/installed" listing, you
> have to think like a programmer. That whole listing is not so much
> portage telling you what it will do, it's portage telling you how it got
> to the point where there's a problem. Think of it like debugger output -
> emerge runs, there's a problem and the dev asks for a memory dump of the
> dep tree emerge has evaluated so far.
>
> A little bit lower you find the helpful hint the some judicious
> unmasking might get around it. But what's really missing is a clear
> message about a mask.
>
> Portage is often like a 10 year old telling you why they are upset. Lots
> of tears and wailing, but no real description of /why/... :-)
>


Well, I did a debug dump thingy a couple times.  I couldn't figure that
out either.  I guess that explains it. 

Maybe one day someone will figure out a way to improve portage's cryptic
output.  I suspect that whoever does that may start with a full head of
hair but be bald when they get done.  Then they will change something
and they get to repeat that process all over again.  ROFL

Dale

:-)  :-)


  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-14  5:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-14  0:53 [gentoo-user] 'emerge --update @world -pv' keeps trying to upgrade to a masked package Marat BN
2015-10-14  1:36 ` [gentoo-user] " Marat BN
2015-10-14  1:53   ` Dale
2015-10-14  5:42     ` Alan McKinnon
2015-10-14  5:58       ` Dale [this message]
2015-10-14  5:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Colquhoun

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