If you add --ask --verbose, Portage should tell you why it's falling back to the source package.
Does your emerge command include --getbinpkg, or -g? On Tue, Apr 16, 2024, 15:43 Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > On Monday, 15 April 2024 12:19:02 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > [Big snip] > > I'm still mystified by these Gentoo binary packages. I assume that they're > generated using the default USE flags in the profile version (whence the > need to > specify it in gentoobinhost.conf). > > So why is portage not fetching webkit-gtk from the repo? I've just had to > compile it from source, even though nothing in /etc/portage/ refers to it > (except for wxGTK depending on it). Therefore I assume i meet the > conditions > for using the binpkg, but apparently not. > > Clues, anyone? > > -- > Regards, > Peter. > > > > >
