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On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 09:35:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> <x11-libs/libXfont-1.5.0 required by |
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> (x11-base/xorg-server-1.12.4-r4:0/1.12.4::gentoo, installed) |
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> This means that you have xorg-server-1.12.4-r4 installed which depends |
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> on libXfont with this limitation: <x11-libs/libXfont-1.5.0 |
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> You only get that sort of emerge output when portage is forced to |
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> install a package that is NOT latest due to some other package having a |
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> constraint on it dependencies. Look at eix for libXfont, there's a |
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> version 1.5.1 available but portage can't use it because of limitations |
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> from your current version of xorg-server. |
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> The same process applies to fontsproto as well. |
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> There is nothing for you to do with this output, it is informational |
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> (but not labelled as such so you can see it). Maybe run emerge without |
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> -v, see if that removes the output |
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Running without -v doesn't help. I almost never use -v with emerge, it's |
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output is verbose enough as it is and burying useful messages in even |
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more trivial, not-for-users output makes decoding it even harder. |
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emerge really needs an option to hide such "informational" messages. Even |
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if they really were informative, that are not necessary to maintaining a |
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functioning system. When I tell portage to update my system to the latest |
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suitable versions of everything, I have no need to be told "there is a |
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later version for libfoo, but you can't have it". I just want the latest |
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I can have. |
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It doesn't help that these warning messages have a superficial |
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resemblance to blocker errors. |
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emerge --just-tell-me-when-something-is-wrong @world please. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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I can't walk on water, but I can stagger on alcohol. |
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