Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] More weird portage behavior
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:44:45
Message-Id: 200903012143.21315.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] More weird portage behavior by Grant
1 On Sunday 01 March 2009 19:59:05 Grant wrote:
2 > >> I'm getting more weird portage behavior and I don't see how to solve
3 > >> this.  I've tried un-emerging and re-emerging ffmpeg to no avail.
4 > >> Please let me know if you have any ideas.
5 > >>
6 > >> # emerge -avDuN world
7 > >
8 > >                ^
9 > >               This
10 > > entirely conflicts with
11 > >
12 > >>     New USE are correctly set, but --newuse wasn't requested, so an
13 > >
14 > >                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
15 > > this.
16 > >
17 > > What version of portage are you on? Try mask it, downgrade, and try
18 > > again. If that fixes, I strongly suspect you have uncovered a bug that
19 > > needs reporting.
20 >
21 > I've tried portage-2.1.6.7 and 2.1.6.4 with the same results.
22
23 OK. Meawhile Dirk spotted the overlay thing, which looks a likely candidate
24 for the true cause
25
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27 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com