On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:21, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: > Hi, gentoo. > > When I try to run an emerge world, I get this error: > > # emerge --update --deep -p world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy > "dev-libs/libgcrypt[static-libs]". > !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: > - dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.4.6 (Change USE: +static-libs) > (dependency required by "sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.1.3-r3[-dynamic]" [ebuild]) > (dependency required by "sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r4[crypt]" [ebuild]) > (dependency required by "@selected" [set]) > (dependency required by "@world" [argument]) > > What is this saying? That I need to locate a use flag "static-libs" and > change it for package libgcrypt? Presumably it is libgcrypt which is > dissatisfied. I'm having difficulty parsing the mssage. > > Next question: what should I do about it?
sudo emerge -av flaggie sudo flaggie dev-libs/libgcrypt +static-libs A package-specific useflag editor is _very_ useful for these kinds of problems. Relevant files are /etc/portage/package.use, where cat/pkg use1 ... useN does USE: +... and /etc/portage/package.use.mask, where cat/pkg use1 ... useN does USE: -... > > Thanks for the help! > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). > >
