On 16/11/2017 03:49, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-11-15 18:40, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> Why is it trying to install the 9999 version? Is that unmasked? >> >> Are you running stable or testing? >> >> What does "grep -r glibc /etc/portage" say? >> >> I don't think you posted the command that started all of this? > > For some reason, these horrible dependency dumps never seem to happen to > me. Why is that? Maybe because I run a "mostly stable" system? I do > have some very few "testing" packages enabled (ie. with ~amd64 flag). > They all fit into a single terminal screen.
Running ~stable is likely the major reason, but of curse only you will ever know for sure. The whole point of ~arch[1] is to help get packages ready for stable. Unstable users find the dependency snags that the single maintainer can't weed out, we report them and log bugs and they get fixed. When the package is stabilized, most of those funny bugs ought to be gone and fixed. Yu mail can be read as proving that this system is working as intended :-) [1] It may or may not be documented to be this way, but it is how the larger community are mostly using it. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
