From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KvFLY-0000SY-7A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:00:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 405F6E03EB; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:00:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f17.google.com (mail-gx0-f17.google.com [209.85.217.17]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1971AE03EB for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:00:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk10 with SMTP id 10so5523618gxk.10 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:00:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=qihGkunhazG+83XBPdL4bkp5rdP4I2M/OQcEoZLY0u0=; b=okn+g/srqYqeVfKKvGbee6DXovcLIhxMNkdfMjFZS19nbp6yK+4jJPgz62HROGOUNk QzFcXirTpuaRGW2Fz5DXe4xgjdvPVSXB0LDmRWrQqzQQwfRtI9L70MVY+lm2T9DG+do5 sFa1S0BCbBbUm0jQC1rzTdw+UayeaBnr4PCiQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=fw/gwy5iv0Hccsq4gXpcY3mv2zlFN2iacGjmwYqzhNFSXYP4WTIBbXlpih2Q5IAI64 Cxx1+/EzesfOlaTk9glvVqfOIqj74a/fEbocn75IsSRIZrUtjqt50ExPFIBZXvmx1Fal /XzY4I/BhUQUSVHBHGMfJJc4ZYjKct2qvVOLw= Received: by 10.142.177.7 with SMTP id z7mr4164458wfe.15.1225303241166; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:00:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.215.15 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:00:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0810291100y8ceb38ey3fb3dfc999a5c168@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:00:41 -0700 From: "Mark Knecht" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] blocks to fix In-Reply-To: <20081029162433.GY18532@edespot.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5bdc1c8b0810281934y6b4370al84f174a1d11f6b87@mail.gmail.com> <047601c93970$26c2f0c0$a500a8c0@quan> <20081029162433.GY18532@edespot.com> X-Archives-Salt: b7e41be2-7575-487c-8e82-72ba3676e86d X-Archives-Hash: 5e6c104013f23839313bada083f77ac1 On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Andrew MacKenzie wrote: > +++ Allan Gottlieb [gentoo-user] [Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:11:48PM -0400]: >> It is not quite that simple. There were many posts today (28 oct) on >> this. I suggest reading them. You might need to unmask mit-krb5 for >> example. There is a danger of rendering wget and hence emerge unusable >> (but if you have already --fetchonly'ed the pkgs then emerge can install >> them). >> >> To repeat the main point: Read *carefully* today's discussion. > Yeah, I'll second this. At the very least make sure you "emerge -f" > anything you unmerge. To make it easy to re-merge if you break wget. > > I had one system that specified USE="kerberos" and krb5 kept wanting to > pull back in com_err (I think). Also removing com_err seemed to break wget > (and curl) on that system so I had to manually fetch some packages. > > -- > // Andrew MacKenzie | http://www.edespot.com Thanks all. I do need to be careful about this as the machine is 400 miles away and the user is completely unable to be of any help if it stops working meaning I have to drive or the box has to be shipped. Either alternative is not good. Cheers, Mark