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From: Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Confessional: how I generally use emerge.
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 03:30:44
Message-Id: 56ECC822.2060909@verizon.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Confessional: how I generally use emerge. by Dale
1 The dependency graph that seems to be murdering me right now seems to be:
2
3
4 kde -> wayland -> gles2 -> egl ->
5
6
7 #####################
8 ..............................
9
10 [ebuild N ] kde-plasma/plasma-meta-5.5.5:5::gentoo
11 USE="display-manager gtk pam pulseaudio sddm sdk wallpapers -bluetooth
12 -mediacenter -networkmanager" 0 KiB
13 [ebuild NS ] kde-apps/kde-meta-15.08.3:5::gentoo
14 [4.14.3-r1:4::gentoo] 0 KiB
15 [uninstall ] kde-apps/kde-meta-4.14.3-r1:4::gentoo USE="nls sdk
16 -accessibility (-aqua) -kdepim -minimal"
17 [blocks b ] kde-apps/kde-meta:4 ("kde-apps/kde-meta:4" is blocking
18 kde-apps/kde-meta-15.08.3)
19 [ebuild U ] dev-lang/mono-4.2.2.30::gentoo [4.2.2.10-r1::gentoo]
20 USE="nls (-doc) -minimal -pax_kernel -xen" 0 KiB
21 [ebuild N ] dev-dotnet/nuget-2.8.3::gentoo 0 KiB
22 [ebuild U ] dev-dotnet/libgdiplus-4.2-r2::gentoo [4.2-r1::gentoo]
23 USE="cairo" 0 KiB
24 [ebuild U ] dev-util/monodevelop-5.9.5.9-r1::gentoo
25 [3.0.2-r1::gentoo] USE="git gnome%* subversion -qtcurve%" 0 KiB
26
27 Total: 119 packages (21 upgrades, 32 new, 54 in new slots, 12
28 reinstalls, 80 uninstalls), Size of downloads: 395,848 KiB
29 Conflict: 80 blocks
30
31 WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a
32 dependency conflict:
33
34 dev-qt/qtgui:5
35
36 (dev-qt/qtgui-5.5.1-r1:5/5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
37 conflicts with
38 ~dev-qt/qtgui-5.5.1[-egl] required by
39 (dev-qt/qtmultimedia-5.5.1-r2:5/5::gentoo, installed)
40 ^^^^
41
42 tortoise ~ #
43 #####################
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45
46
47 Dale wrote:
48 > Neil Bothwick wrote:
49 >>
50 >> Why ask the same question again when you got an answer last time?
51 >>
52 >> Hint: look at the output for asciidoc.
53 >> --
54 >> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
55 > I have to add this. From what I understand about the scripts he is
56 > using, he is blindly letting emerge do updates without checking to see
57 > if the updates fall into line with what he *needs*. If I read it
58 > correctly, any USE flag change will be missed until it hits the fan and
59 > is broken. That would then mean taking a lot of time to go back through
60 > logs and figuring out just when it went wrong and most importantly, what
61 > caused it and how to fix it. Since the change could have happened
62 > several updates ago, that could involve some work and a lot of rebuilding.
63 >
64 > Doing the sync in a script and even getting a email or something with
65 > the -p output is fine but updating blindly is not a good idea.
66 >
67 > At this point, I think I understand why he is having so much trouble.
68 > At the very least, check to see what USE flags are changing before doing
69 > updates. There are other things that are important but that is one that
70 > changes a good bit.
71 >
72 > Dale
73 >
74 > :-) :-)
75 >
76 >
77
78
79 --
80 IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel.
81
82 Powers are not rights.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Confessional: how I generally use emerge. Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>