Re: [gentoo-user] Problem installing PHP pdo

[Mike Diehl]

Sounds like I just need to emerge egroupware.

Per your advise, I tried:
emerge --info | grep -i pdo

I did get my USE flag as output, and it looked sane.

Thanks for your help; I'll let you know.

Mike.

"Michael Orlitzky" <michael@××××××××.com> wrote:
> On 12/23/2012 04:36 PM, Mike Diehl wrote:
>> Forgive the top-posting, but I think my response will be more concise
this
>> way.
>>
>> I have pdo in my USE flag in /etc/make.conf, so I thought I had this
>> covered.
>>
>
> Does it show up in emerge --info? If not, you might have a typo. If so,
> it's probably some other missing dependency. (Have you re-emerged PHP
> since the USE change?)
>
>
>> I'm also not a fan of the netapps mechanism because I put my web-space in
a
>> nonstandard location for ease of backing up.  Also, I probably just don't
>> understand it as well as I'd like.  <wink>
>>
>
> Nah, it's inflexible.
>
>
>> So, I could emerge egroupware and let emerge handle the dependencies for
me.
>>  then I cold just emerge -C and re-install just the application by hand.
>> Sound right?
>>
>
> This will get the dependencies, but once you uninstall egroupware,
> portage won't know why you have them. So if you do an emerge --depclean
> later, they'll come up for removal. Eventually you'll forget why you had
> them, and let it remove something important (personal experience).
>
> That's why I go to all that trouble with the ebuild in an overlay. A
> simpler workaround would be to install the egroupware from portage, and
> then ignore it but leave it installed.
>
>

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Take care and have fun,
Mike Diehl.