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From: marduk@×××××××××××.org
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Problem Emerging Gnome3 on Fresh Install
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 14:43:29
Message-Id: 1382193803.14268.35955353.337E7A7F@webmail.messagingengine.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Problem Emerging Gnome3 on Fresh Install by Tyrin Price
1 On Sat, Oct 19, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Tyrin Price wrote:
2 > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 09:39:27AM -0400, marduk@×××××××××××.org wrote:
3 > >"exactly-one-of" means just that. The package (in this case
4 > >app-misc/tracker-0.16.2) requires exactly one of the use flags
5 > >("gstreamer", "xine"). You have "-gstreamer" and "-xine" and therefore
6 > >violate the constraint.
7 > >
8 > >I recomment enabling "gstreamer". As you'll likely be pulling it in
9 > >anyway for GNOME.
10 > >
11 >
12 > Yes, I had tried being very specific in package.use with:
13 >
14 > =app-misc/tracker-0.16 gstreamer
15 >
16 > and
17 >
18 > =app-misc/tracker-0.16 xine
19 >
20 > But, those did not work. Tried...
21 >
22 > app-misc/tracker gstreamer
23 >
24 > ...and succeeded.
25 >
26
27 That's because 0.16.2 != 0.16.
28
29 In general, avoid being *too* specific. Especially when there is no
30 need for that level of specificity. (E.g. why only allow gstreamer for
31 tracker-0.16? What happens when 0.16.x comes out? What about 0.17?).