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From: Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The following USE changes are necessary to proceed - Why?
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:23:14
Message-Id: CAE1pOi3fvM7gAenG2owDOQNkMLMQSbKD_djYac=aLZOf5tWx5A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] The following USE changes are necessary to proceed - Why? by Zac Medico
1 On 10 February 2012 11:29, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
2 > On 02/10/2012 11:23 AM, Matt Turner wrote:
3 >> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:17 PM, ross smith <gaurdro@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >>> The line above is not prompting you to turn on the nettle use flag, which
5 >>> appears to already be on.  It's prompting you to add the gmp use flag for
6 >>> dev-libs/nettle.
7
8 Groan ... indeed.
9
10 >> Which looks like it's on as well.
11 >
12 > It looks that way, but that's because emerge enabled it automatically to
13 > satisfy the dep (--autounmask is enabled by default these days). The
14 > prompt is there to notify the user that they need to adjust their
15 > configuration files (or use --autounmask-write).
16
17 I've disabled autounmask. The error message you get without autounmask
18 is much clearer. I can see the value of autounmask but the error
19 (info?) message could be made clearer. (Not that it doesn't contain
20 all needed information, I obviously wasn't paying enough attention and
21 the first line threw me.)
22
23 >> In either case -- this isn't gentoo-dev material.
24
25 No, probably not, it was mostly user error. Still, see above.
26
27 > Indeed, forums.gentoo.org would be more appropriate.
28
29 Gentoo-user, sure. forums.gentoo.org? No never. MLs are useful, forums
30 are a pain. But that's a whole different discussion. :-)