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From: Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING! : Newbie ahead -- EMERGEncy problems
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:53:32
Message-Id: 200602121347.48080.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] WARNING! : Newbie ahead -- EMERGEncy problems by Meino Christian Cramer
1 Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
2 > In my /usr/portage there were files concerning gcc-4.02 (and
3 > even gcc-4.1.beta*).
4 >
5 > But they were silently ignored.
6
7 Of course. First emerge eix. Then run 'eix -e gcc'. You will see:
8
9 ... *4.0.2-r3 *4.1.0_beta20060203
10
11 >From 'man eix' you will learn what the * means: that it is keyworded
12 as -*. And 'man portage' will tell you what this means: "this
13 indicates that the package is known to be broken..."
14
15 Benno
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