On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 20:37:53 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > My impression is that using Portage has become more complicated > & its warning/error messages have not been given the necessary > attention. Complaints or pleas for help like the OP's here are quite > frequent & not all of them come from novices who don't understand what > Gentoo does. > > Portage sb able to report eg > > "Pkg1 & Pkg2 (of Version1 & Version2) can't be installed together ; > Pkg1 is needed for Pkg3, which you already have installed ; > Pkg2 is needed for Pkg4, which you are trying to install. > Please review your needs : you may need to remove a package > temporarily in order for Portage to proceed, then restore a different > version of it".
Maybe it should, but if there is no one willing or able to take on this task, it won't. Assuming that the task is a major one, which I think it is, an interim help may be a documentation page that explains the causes of such messages in detail, as is so often done on this list, referenced in the portage output. -- Neil Bothwick "Designing pages in HTML is like having sex in a bathtub. If you don't know anything about sex, it won't help to know a lot about bathtubs."
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