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On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 20:37:53 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> My impression is that using Portage has become more complicated |
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> & its warning/error messages have not been given the necessary |
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> attention. Complaints or pleas for help like the OP's here are quite |
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> frequent & not all of them come from novices who don't understand what |
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> Gentoo does. |
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> Portage sb able to report eg |
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> "Pkg1 & Pkg2 (of Version1 & Version2) can't be installed together ; |
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> Pkg1 is needed for Pkg3, which you already have installed ; |
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> Pkg2 is needed for Pkg4, which you are trying to install. |
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> Please review your needs : you may need to remove a package |
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> temporarily in order for Portage to proceed, then restore a different |
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> version of it". |
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Maybe it should, but if there is no one willing or able to take on this |
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task, it won't. Assuming that the task is a major one, which I think it |
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is, an interim help may be a documentation page that explains the causes |
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of such messages in detail, as is so often done on this list, referenced |
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in the portage output. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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"Designing pages in HTML is like having sex in a bathtub. If you don't |
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know anything about sex, it won't help to know a lot about bathtubs." |
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