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 365F71384AE for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 15:57:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA46921C028; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 15:57:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-io0-f182.google.com (mail-io0-f182.google.com [209.85.223.182]) (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 C4017E08F2 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 15:57:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iofh134 with SMTP id h134so98806864iof.0 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 08:57:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=PIicc+SfAspXw1a1vNdsovHOLGUwMu1hY+XeBXq3iMU=; b=xXapDA2NpyhIQp0E5HpclUIBKeTO4g5wZDprdNEdhglStK7O0lx23T9oD1+erJStgb 9MbhybyF2kt47dw8gLCUvSf2DCh9oQjORFhbSWxGQ67XJXreT4Wq5KaQbFWFMSEEc6p5 D8qUTkcZZdzyzYvVU3IzMq1y0EfSTbeZ4zqBRMShQKEWrPD/9HoLwej2EpCCSaD91GyS vi3D/kGbmGw+QQ6EKdjeNl9mxmHCHvj6R4MekqyfQ8vUmUSAaT84CAk1CW1OgFEz19pH VsSzTi6QFa6RliTFsn5otR/64xLZ+UZ91jb3hjQyTd08JbEpaeG0uyB4UTZUSc6w/lF2 AqTQ== 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 X-Received: by 10.107.28.140 with SMTP id c134mr23076457ioc.93.1442764634190; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 08:57:14 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.79.103.70 with HTTP; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 08:57:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87zj0haz52.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> References: <87eghucic9.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <20150919210527.1930cf41@digimed.co.uk> <87zj0haz52.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 11:57:14 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: XmrkO79pGhoO-ui2x4QQR13ck7I Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] update problems From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: ff7f96bd-295e-4f9f-a1d9-de5d125803a4 X-Archives-Hash: b5ede019ed0603141bef6fa38ec30246 On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 11:28 AM, lee wrote: > > Should I make feature requests? > First, don't believe every post you read in gentoo-user. Just as you can post anything you want here, so can anybody else. People offer advice they think is helpful. That doesn't mean it is necessarily correct, and that statement isn't directed at anybody in particular. Anytime there is a post on -user you'll see about 5 right answers and 5 wrong answers, and the person who knows the least (the person asking the question) gets to decide which one is which. Short of moderating the list we don't really have a solution for that. Something like stack exchange might be useful here. As I already said (in one of the emails you haven't replied to yet), we're fairly aware that portage output isn't very helpful here, and it is something people are interested in changing. I don't really see the point in asking for a feature request, since it is already well-known. I would recommend trying out my suggestion of adding --backtrack=50 before doing anything else. If that doesn't work, then try emerge -1'ing the various packages listed as requiring the older version of the library. -- Rich