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on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Neil Bothwick(neil@××××××××××.uk) wrote |
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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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> [good stuff snipped] |
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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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I put the doc flag in there because a number of packages -- and I |
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can't remember which ones now -- needed it, I think apache was one of |
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them, so I gave up and did it -- maybe taking it out for the time |
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being will help things along. |
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Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: |
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How do |
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you spend it? |
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John Covici |
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covici@××××××××××.com |
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