On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.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 Just checking if my partial install is out of date already with.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