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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:07:19
Message-Id: 4DACDBBF.2080501@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please! by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:18:17 -0500, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >> I might add, he has the -p option in there. It's not going to *do*
6 >> anything but show if it will work or not. Then a person can adjust the
7 >> USE settings the correct way and remove the -p option or add -a. I do
8 >> the later myself.
9 >>
10 >
11 > I hadn't noticed the -p, but what will it show? It certainly won't show
12 > whether setting that USE flag globally will correct the error message, as
13 > the pretend emerge is for one package, and not the one causing the
14 > problem. You'd need to emerge -p world for that, and setting USE flags on
15 > the command line for that is even worse.
16 >
17 >
18 >
19
20 I agree that setting about anything on the command line is a bad idea.
21 However, it is just to test it to see what, if anything, it changes.
22
23 Dale
24
25 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please! Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>