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From: allan gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 15:41:18
Message-Id: 87y3jq5mr0.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion by Neil Bothwick
1 On Sun, Feb 18 2018, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2
3 > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 08:51:35 +0000, Mick wrote:
4 >
5 >> > What I do in the meantime is
6 >> >
7 >> > emerge --update --pretend @world
8 >> >
9 >> > and then manually
10 >> >
11 >> > emerge -1 all packages mentioned except webkit-gtk
12 >> >
13 >> > I do a similar procedure for
14 >> >
15 >> > emerge @preserved rebuild
16 >> >
17 >> > allan
18 >>
19 >> It is probably easier to just run:
20 >>
21 >> emerge --update --pretend --exclude webkit-gtk @world
22 >
23 > And even easier if you use --ask instead of --pretend, dependency
24 > calculation seems to take a lot longer these days.
25
26 I do use --ask. I just wrote --pretend thinking (clearly incorrectly)
27 that it would make the specific point clearer.
28
29 allan