Re: [gentoo-user] blocks to fix

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Andrew MacKenzie <amackenz@×××××××.com> wrote:
> +++ Allan Gottlieb [gentoo-user] [Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:11:48PM -0400]:
>> It is not quite that simple.  There were many posts today (28 oct) on
>> this.  I suggest reading them.  You might need to unmask mit-krb5 for
>> example.  There is a danger of rendering wget and hence emerge unusable
>> (but if you have already --fetchonly'ed the pkgs then emerge can install
>> them).
>>
>> To repeat the main point:  Read *carefully* today's discussion.
> Yeah, I'll second this.  At the very least make sure you "emerge -f"
> anything you unmerge.  To make it easy to re-merge if you break wget.
>
> I had one system that specified USE="kerberos" and krb5 kept wanting to
> pull back in com_err (I think).  Also removing com_err seemed to break wget
> (and curl) on that system so I had to manually fetch some packages.
>
> --
> // Andrew MacKenzie  |  http://www.edespot.com

Thanks all. I do need to be careful about this as the machine is 400
miles away and the user is completely unable to be of any help if it
stops working meaning I have to drive or the box has to be shipped.
Either alternative is not good.

Cheers,
Mark