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 61FD91396D9 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:35:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 08136E0EE8; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:35:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lf0-x243.google.com (mail-lf0-x243.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c07::243]) (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 67551E0E97 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:35:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lf0-x243.google.com with SMTP id e143so30193707lfg.12 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 05:35:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mlwNYrdxqYcogpnfHZRN3nH5cyB6nz1Ou2X8IEf7e7Q=; b=ULFqLVh6+UwV23qGYnHRk3xxg4IbQ9zuvWAuPEOsdNXLIdac5+MDuwedjQ7IKmMNzq RNw3exxLtnEpyiuLKtZSYyd07Rn6+2d716+JGSOY+Lz0ATpZ9N5mezN/OYfB7rHMwukc 0aciDomwLxDwni42YXGAHYVQeOCe8JXQJ2OZz1RAG9Zb5lCt78SD49M0rr85XwmJ7i+i S+GgqcnnA4AEN+trwexb6XVs9SyYE2wKd/O2LkJopAHFlYEe7XDzgCg+6BsCzrFnRPpq OiJj6hQL1rYM0PRx/5PyZ5Nz71sNvCZK95PWZenoHEycD3+rvkUOTEgW7sShXiJqbnrZ pc7w== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=mlwNYrdxqYcogpnfHZRN3nH5cyB6nz1Ou2X8IEf7e7Q=; b=Shp1S9NGKdXddgG6mjNcjOTBt+MtJkI79Su9Jc829v59D0fFqLoEeP7pKrR90j8Zxb ZKqoC0RWq7Z91G2LMFSsLII2GhghtO5d4spw71kUqjsbtL+zDJX02us79y7EuK/O2JrF vrbQOZ6fH3drSqgBwK9PMecLF79ypaaej5Liwz4Surtc87v3FjKBT1ZM+4ppI64HqHy4 rEM4EQJZMZBjbKOxPh2br2Lkgw1BS2B8HQc8Kc1a5T01Vz7ZpJHyB9xBIdWkG20b/ltH xNXMBz+svFOs9/tMCx8d8J6m4jgfzTpEoLQb0Bb5bzfDFSILTZf/DptdtUBwcI29gKLk qhSA== X-Gm-Message-State: AJaThX6b76BrXuJOHKwr6VNDhSHRrmLJKZsze0oXCIVVsd4W1H/gt8Vk RyUaPqy37o0/lTw0q6rlTDHHFA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGs4zMZkuvLo+pEhaztVF3bI6H/F3wBWwRX0rtSVuvYs135XnEPQtWjbzxS4jCWS5dzdYJ8keesmJA== X-Received: by 10.46.87.9 with SMTP id l9mr751612ljb.176.1510839309542; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 05:35:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.20.0.40] ([197.101.48.133]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id r26sm209404lfd.15.2017.11.16.05.35.08 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 16 Nov 2017 05:35:08 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help...can't decipher emerge oracle... To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20171115165037.ilmhoi7zwiltzwru@solfire> <20171115172011.eqyhm2xbtoz74byk@solfire> <20171115174315.6s3l23pgsvppqqf2@solfire> <20171115184050.09cd020a@digimed.co.uk> <20171116014905.gr7wqda5n55fyrws@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> From: Alan McKinnon Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:29:51 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 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 In-Reply-To: <20171116014905.gr7wqda5n55fyrws@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 69a0ec13-d838-4e61-84bc-713a9ced554a X-Archives-Hash: 4969dcfc29dc7b21e6c48a54be1c7e2a On 16/11/2017 03:49, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-11-15 18:40, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> Why is it trying to install the 9999 version? Is that unmasked? >> >> Are you running stable or testing? >> >> What does "grep -r glibc /etc/portage" say? >> >> I don't think you posted the command that started all of this? > > For some reason, these horrible dependency dumps never seem to happen to > me. Why is that? Maybe because I run a "mostly stable" system? I do > have some very few "testing" packages enabled (ie. with ~amd64 flag). > They all fit into a single terminal screen. Running ~stable is likely the major reason, but of curse only you will ever know for sure. The whole point of ~arch[1] is to help get packages ready for stable. Unstable users find the dependency snags that the single maintainer can't weed out, we report them and log bugs and they get fixed. When the package is stabilized, most of those funny bugs ought to be gone and fixed. Yu mail can be read as proving that this system is working as intended :-) [1] It may or may not be documented to be this way, but it is how the larger community are mostly using it. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com