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From: n952162 <n952162@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?
Date: Sun, 16 May 2021 10:58:00
Message-Id: dd3cbad3-cc4a-4362-88b9-d12635993238@web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean? by n952162
1 On 5/16/21 12:49 PM, n952162 wrote:
2 > On 5/16/21 11:28 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 >> On Sun, 16 May 2021 11:26:37 +0200, n952162 wrote:
4 >>
5 >>>>> There are no use flags defined for any of the packages I did a random
6 >>>>> check for, either on the server or the client.  I am worried that it
7 >>>>> is as you say: that the ebuild has a change of USE flags, which, of
8 >>>>> course, has nothing to do with me, the user.
9 >>>> As already stated, any USE flag changes would appear in the emerge
10 >>>> output, this is most likely caused by --changed-deps. Try with
11 >>>> --changed-use but without --changed-deps to see.
12 >>>>
13 >>>>
14 >>> I have introduced that into my build script.  But, if it's as you say,
15 >>> the one is a subset of the other, it should have no effect on the
16 >>> output, right?
17 >>>
18 >> --changed-use is a subset of --newuse. --changed-deps is separate.
19 >>
20 >>
21 > Ah, I oversaw that.
22 >
23 > Ah. why would I want to have --changed-deps anyway?  That suddenly seems
24 > silly.
25 >
26 > It's unfortunate, if there's no explanatory display if a package got
27 > disqualified for that reason.
28 >
29 >
30
31 Okay, the point is, there's some package on my system that doesn't match
32 what the new version of the depending package requires?  Or, just that
33 there's a dependency change at all?
34
35 If the former, but there's a old version of the needed packet, will
36 portage link with the old version?