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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:20:50
Message-Id: 201106221520.03278.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE? by Alan McKinnon
1 On Wednesday 22 Jun 2011 13:41:57 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 22 June 2011 14:22:00 Daniel Pielmeier did opine thusly:
3 > > > Portage has always displayed the latter right? That makes sense
4 > > > - you can see what the emerge command would do as entered and
5 > > > compare it to the error to see what the problem is. In this
6 > > > case it's a tweak to package.use which I'm perfectly happy to
7 > > > do.
8 > > >
9 > > > I think it's bug time, portage is displaying the wrong output
10 > > > for
11 > > > failures.
12 > >
13 > > You can try if you get the desired output if FEATURES="-autounmask".
14 > > If you enable autounmask portage automatically enableds the
15 > > required changes and tells you the changes required to your
16 > > configuration.
17 >
18 > It is unset here (well, it's not set, actually - same thing)
19 >
20 > I'm a sysadmin, I have an inherent distrust of all things software and
21 > automagic-config-changers are scary things indeed :-)
22
23 I'd include eselect in this. There's probably nothing scary about it, but it
24 does make me feel nervous when I *have* to use it ... ;-)
25 --
26 Regards,
27 Mick

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