[gentoo-user] Unusal emerge error concerning x11-misc/xnview

[gentoo-user] Unusal emerge error concerning x11-misc/xnview

[reader]

Trying to emerge x11-misc/xnview:

,----
| root # emerge -vvp * x11-misc/xnview
| 
| These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
| 
| Calculating dependencies \
| 
| !!! The short ebuild name "bbdb" is ambiguous.  Please specify
| !!! one of the following fully-qualified ebuild names instead:
| 
|     app-emacs/bbdb
|     app-xemacs/bbdb
`----

Apparently something is being passed to emerge somewhere I can't see.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Unusal emerge error concerning x11-misc/xnview

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

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On Saturday 26 May 2007, reader@newsguy.com wrote about '[gentoo-user]  
Unusal emerge error concerning x11-misc/xnview':
> Trying to emerge x11-misc/xnview:
> | root # emerge -vvp * x11-misc/xnview

See that * in your command, that's going to be expanded by your shell to 
the name of every (non-"hidden") file in the current directory, unless 
there aren't any.

> Apparently something is being passed to emerge somewhere I can't see.

It's easy to catch if you actually understand how the POSIX shell works.  
(Hint: /very/ different from MS Windows's cmd.exe)

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[gentoo-user] Re: Unusal emerge error concerning x11-misc/xnview

[reader]

"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.net> writes:

>> Apparently something is being passed to emerge somewhere I can't see.
>
> It's easy to catch if you actually understand how the POSIX shell works.  
> (Hint: /very/ different from MS Windows's cmd.exe)
>

Only if you see it... hehe.  That one got right by me and I've used
posix shells for many years.  (Probably shouldn't have admitted that
given the basic nature of my ..`error'.

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