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On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:58:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> These questions are coming up a lot lately, and it's always the same |
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> stuff: how the hell do I read this output? I don;t have these things |
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> installed. |
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Two other things that help. You have 228 packages marked for |
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installation. you can make things a lot clearer by installing some of |
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them separately, to reduce the size of the list. Use the --oneshot and |
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--update options to prevent pollution of your world file and update the |
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dependencies of the files involved. You should be able to get the package |
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list down to no more than a dozen, at which point the blocking is much |
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easier to evaluate <insert cliche about wood and trees>. |
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Secondly, you have the doc USE flag set. This is normally not needed, |
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and rarely needed globally. Ebuilds should install man/info pages by |
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default, USE="doc" adds extra documentation, usually API information for |
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programmers, which is why it is rarely needed globally. The doc flag |
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increases the dependencies of some packages, sometimes massively. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Very funny Scotty.. now beam down my pants! |
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