From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8A5F91382C5 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 15:41:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F959E0C9A; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 15:41:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.cims.nyu.edu (MX.CIMS.NYU.EDU [128.122.49.99]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B52CDE09B5 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 15:41:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (smtp.cs.nyu.edu [128.122.49.97]) by mx.cims.nyu.edu (8.15.1+Sun/8.15.1) with ESMTPS id w1IFf8k4011522 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 10:41:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from E7450.localdomain (ool-18be5603.dyn.optonline.net [24.190.86.3]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id w1IFf75j016958 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 10:41:08 -0500 Received: by E7450.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AC4E94573E; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 10:41:07 -0500 (EST) From: allan gottlieb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion References: <87371zt86n.fsf@nyu.edu> <4876333.DpMW1yWErG@dell_xps> <20180218094934.14d31212@digimed.co.uk> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 10:41:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20180218094934.14d31212@digimed.co.uk> (Neil Bothwick's message of "Sun, 18 Feb 2018 09:49:34 +0000") Message-ID: <87y3jq5mr0.fsf@nyu.edu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) 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 X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (mx.cims.nyu.edu [128.122.49.99]); Sun, 18 Feb 2018 10:41:09 -0500 (EST) for IP:'128.122.49.97' DOMAIN:'smtp.cs.nyu.edu' HELO:'smtp.cs.nyu.edu' FROM:'gottlieb@nyu.edu' RCPT:'' X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (mx.cims.nyu.edu [128.122.49.99]); Sun, 18 Feb 2018 10:41:09 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.99.2 at mx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.80 on 128.122.49.99 X-Archives-Salt: ec2f1366-0967-4069-89e2-e38fd8b4ad9b X-Archives-Hash: ac2a624abf30f956424f93cc857b0765 On Sun, Feb 18 2018, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 08:51:35 +0000, Mick wrote: > >> > What I do in the meantime is >> > >> > emerge --update --pretend @world >> > >> > and then manually >> > >> > emerge -1 all packages mentioned except webkit-gtk >> > >> > I do a similar procedure for >> > >> > emerge @preserved rebuild >> > >> > allan >> >> It is probably easier to just run: >> >> emerge --update --pretend --exclude webkit-gtk @world > > And even easier if you use --ask instead of --pretend, dependency > calculation seems to take a lot longer these days. I do use --ask. I just wrote --pretend thinking (clearly incorrectly) that it would make the specific point clearer. allan