On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Andrew MacKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +++ Allan Gottlieb [gentoo-user] [Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:11:48PM -0400]: >> It is not quite that simple. There were many posts today (28 oct) on >> this. I suggest reading them. You might need to unmask mit-krb5 for >> example. There is a danger of rendering wget and hence emerge unusable >> (but if you have already --fetchonly'ed the pkgs then emerge can install >> them). >> >> To repeat the main point: Read *carefully* today's discussion. > Yeah, I'll second this. At the very least make sure you "emerge -f" > anything you unmerge. To make it easy to re-merge if you break wget. > > I had one system that specified USE="kerberos" and krb5 kept wanting to > pull back in com_err (I think). Also removing com_err seemed to break wget > (and curl) on that system so I had to manually fetch some packages. > > -- > // Andrew MacKenzie | http://www.edespot.com
Thanks all. I do need to be careful about this as the machine is 400 miles away and the user is completely unable to be of any help if it stops working meaning I have to drive or the box has to be shipped. Either alternative is not good. Cheers, Mark
