Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world output seems a bit short on info

[Canek Peláez Valdés]

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
> Working on a new install of gentoo as vm (vbox) guest on win7.
>
> Just checking if my partial install is out of date already with.  And
> if a USE change was complicating things.
>
> That change was to add -selinux.  I added that to make.conf after
> seeing a selinux pkg flash by when I installed ... I think it was
> 'rsyslog'
>
> Do I really need any selinux pkgs... I didn't mean to install it but
> it got pulled in and I was a bit late in noticing.
>
> I'd sooner have nothing to do with selinux.
>
> I understand what the ouput is telling me, and how to arrange it, but
> first I want to straighten out anything to do with selinux.
>
> emerge -vuDp world... and get this confusing output:
>
> The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
>  (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
> # required by sys-libs/libselinux-2.1.13-r4
> # required by sys-libs/libsemanage-2.1.10
> # required by sys-apps/policycoreutils-2.1.14-r3
> # required by sec-policy/selinux-gpm-2.20130424-r2
> # required by sys-libs/gpm-1.20.7-r1
> # required by app-editors/emacs-24.3-r2[gpm]
> # required by @selected
> # required by @world (argument)
>>=dev-libs/libpcre-8.33 static-libs
> # required by sys-apps/busybox-1.21.0[static]
> # required by @system
> # required by @world (argument)
>>=sys-libs/libselinux-2.1.13-r4 static-libs

What profile does your installation have? If I'm not mistaken, only
the hardened profiles set USE="selinux" by default.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México