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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: Alan Grimes <alonzotg@×××××××.net>, gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2021 20:13:07
Message-Id: 20210902211251.76bdfe46@digimed.co.uk
1 Replied to the list.
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3 On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 15:50:37 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote:
4
5 > Neil Bothwick wrote:
6 >
7 > If you wish to manually migrate now, there are a series
8 > of steps described on the wiki (see below), but the outline is:
9 > * unforce the crypt USE flag of sys-libs/glibc and disable it
10 > * unmask the system and split-usr (if applicable) USE flag of
11 > sys-libs/libxcrypt and enable it
12 > * unmask ~virtual/libcrypt-2
13 >
14 > ###
15 >
16 > Glibc simply DOES NOT HAVE a "crypt" useflag... so FALSE!!!!
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18 Yes it does, but only on the testing version. If you are running stable,
19 you won't have it. But if you are running stable, why are you trying to
20 emerge libxcrypt-4.4.25?
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22 It appears that your problem may be caused by trying to mix stable and
23 testing packages with inter-dependencies.
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26 --
27 Neil Bothwick
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29 All generalizations are false, including this one.

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Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU David Haller <gentoo@×××××××.de>