On 10/07/2014 20:11, List Reader wrote: > Okay, I see. Thank you so much. Soo so much. I thought I was going round > the twist, or hopelesly ignorant. I couln't understand why emerge didn't > offer me > --autounmask-write, so I could dispatch-conf and move on. I was having > similar problems with media-gfx/freecad and some others, but eselecting the > apropriate target/slot thing made it go. Okay, that's it for today. My > eys hurt. I'll do it in the morning. you guys are great. I'm going to bed.
Stick with it, it gets easier. Portage *does* have it's special way of looking at the world, but after a while it starts to make some kind of sense. It just doesn't happen quickly, you have to persist with the damn thing :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com