Re: [gentoo-user] Help with emerge error msg

[Corbin Bird]

Just as a test set the 'icu inspector' USE FLAGS for net-libs/nodejs,
Then try this command, it should show how many packages would be pulled
in and their USE FLAGS :

emerge -pvt net-libs/nodejs

On 3/9/19 4:24 PM, allan gottlieb wrote:
> In trying to emerge chromium I received an error msg saying that
> net-libs/nodejs needed the "inspector" USE flag.
>
> I added
>       >=net-libs/nodejs-8.12.0 inspector
> to
>      /etc/portage/package.use  chromium
>
> Now I receive the msg
>
> !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy ">=net-libs/nodejs-7.6.0[inspector]" has unmet requirements.
> - net-libs/nodejs-8.12.0::gentoo USE="inspector npm snapshot ssl -debug -doc -icu -systemtap -test" ABI_X86="(64)" CPU_FLAGS_X86="sse2" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7"
>
>   The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied:
>     inspector? ( icu )
>
>   The above constraints are a subset of the following complete expression:
>     python_targets_python2_7 inspector? ( icu ssl ) npm? ( ssl )
>
> (dependency required by "www-client/chromium-72.0.3626.96::gentoo" [ebuild])
> (dependency required by "chromium" [argument])
>
> This seems more serious than a simple request to add the icu USE flag to
> nodejs.  Can someone please explain how I should proceed?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> allan
>
>