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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Output / End User Experience
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:30:05
Message-Id: 4FFB7728.8040003@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Portage Output / End User Experience by Rich Freeman
1 On 07/09/2012 07:02 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > Is there any way for portage to figure out that one of those is the
3 > eventual outcome, and then direct the user to the minimal changes to
4 > accomplish either?
5
6 You could try a larger emerge --backtrack setting. If it doesn't settle
7 on a sensible solution, then it would be interesting to look at --debug
8 output, to find out what has gone wrong.
9 --
10 Thanks,
11 Zac