Re: [gentoo-user] Kicad and complications from hdf5 and vtk USE flags. Not package specific tho.

[Dale]

Wol wrote:
> On 17/02/2022 07:42, Dale wrote:
>> I also commented out as much as I could in
>> package.use, the things I'd tried previously.  Now it has a clean path
>> to upgrade.
>
> Is package.use a file or a directory? If it's a file, convert it to a
> directory (you can just put the existing package.use file in the new
> directory).
>
> Then make sure every time you add new use flags they're either in a
> file dedicated to a particular package, or they're in a dated file and
> refer to particular package versions. That dated file, when etc-update
> wants to update package.use, I just rename its temporary file into a
> proper dated file, rather than let it mess with a file it's chosen at
> random.
>
> That way, you can delete packages you no longer use, clear out old
> package/use combos, and generally keep things tidy.
>
> And when you're trying to fix something, that all goes in one file you
> can ditch when it's all gone wrong :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>
>


I have them all as directories.  Some are specific to KDE, some are for
other things.  I organize them, sort of.  I also have a catch all with
the default name. 

As I continued to try to get everything up to date and a clean output
from emerge world, I started running into the same problems as before. 
So, I tried setting backtrack to a insanely high number but that didn't
help.  I then went back to a tried and generally true method, emerge -e
world.  I did that in a chroot first and am currently doing it with
emerge -ek world on my live system.  That seems to have sorted out
whatever was causing this USE flag circle.  It compiled everything fine
in the chroot. 

Maybe I will have a clean system in a few hours.  Even emerging binaries
seem to take longer than it used to for some reason.  Oh well. 

Dale

:-)  :-)