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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mkvtoolnix: To use qt5 or not to use qt5 - that is the question (USE flag in-/valid?)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 08:34:38
Message-Id: 20200227083419.19beff0f@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] mkvtoolnix: To use qt5 or not to use qt5 - that is the question (USE flag in-/valid?) by tuxic@posteo.de
1 On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 05:12:59 +0100, tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
2
3 > this command:
4 > emerge --selective=n @preserved-rebuild
5 >
6 > gives me this message when started:
7 > --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use/mkvtoolnix: qt5
8
9 That's not an atom, it's a USE flag. The format of package.use is
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11 atom USE [USE...]
12
13 so you want something like
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15 media-video/mkvtoolnix qt5
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17 You seem to be assuming that portage picks up the package name from the
18 file name, it does not. The contents of all of package.use/* are combined
19 as if a single file before portage does its stuff. This is all explained
20 in the portage man page.
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23 --
24 Neil Bothwick
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26 To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists
27 solutions are things that are still all mixed up.

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