On Saturday 26 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Unusal emerge error concerning x11-misc/xnview': > Trying to emerge x11-misc/xnview: > | root # emerge -vvp * x11-misc/xnview
See that * in your command, that's going to be expanded by your shell to the name of every (non-"hidden") file in the current directory, unless there aren't any. > Apparently something is being passed to emerge somewhere I can't see. It's easy to catch if you actually understand how the POSIX shell works. (Hint: /very/ different from MS Windows's cmd.exe) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/
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