Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help...can't decipher emerge oracle...

2017-11-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
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  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




Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help...can't decipher emerge oracle...

2017-11-15 Thread tuxic
On 11/15 05:49, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2017-11-15 18:40, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 
> > Why is it trying to install the  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.
> 
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Hi Ian,

I am happy to know, that your system is that stable and is not
effected by problems other will find, report and get fixed by using
the unstable version. ;)

Cheers
Meino





[gentoo-user] Re: Help...can't decipher emerge oracle...

2017-11-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2017-11-15 18:40, Neil Bothwick wrote:

> Why is it trying to install the  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.

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