Re: [gentoo-user] Kicad and complications from hdf5 and vtk USE flags. Not package specific tho.

2022-02-17 Thread Wol
On 17/02/2022 07:42, Dale wrote: I also commented out as much as I could in package.use, the things I'd tried previously.  Now it has a clean path to upgrade. Is package.use a file or a directory? If it's a file, convert it to a directory (you can just put the existing package.use file in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kicad and complications from hdf5 and vtk USE flags. Not package specific tho.

2022-02-17 Thread Dale
Hi Miles, This install is likely over 10 years old.  I might add, I copied a lot of things over from my previous system which was a AMD 2500+ single core puter.  In a way, some things could be dating back to around 2003 or 2004.  I use eix-test-obsolete to clean up package.* files but there isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Kicad and complications from hdf5 and vtk USE flags. Not package specific tho.

2022-02-17 Thread Miles Malone
threads very rarely makes sense for anything, btw. On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 at 21:41, Miles Malone wrote: > > Now for your own sanity you might consider stopping adding things > globally constantly, and using app-portage/flaggie to sanely manage > them per-package... Cause there's far more use flags

Re: [gentoo-user] Kicad and complications from hdf5 and vtk USE flags. Not package specific tho.

2022-02-17 Thread Miles Malone
Now for your own sanity you might consider stopping adding things globally constantly, and using app-portage/flaggie to sanely manage them per-package... Cause there's far more use flags that make sense per-package than make sense globally. I used to manage them all largely globally like ten

Re: [gentoo-user] Kicad and complications from hdf5 and vtk USE flags. Not package specific tho.

2022-02-17 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 01:42:39 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> P. S.  Is there a tool to make the USE line in make.conf in alphabetical >> order or something?  When I add things, I try to put them in order so it >> is easier to find them.  For some reason, they are out of order, a

Re: [gentoo-user] Kicad and complications from hdf5 and vtk USE flags. Not package specific tho.

2022-02-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 01:42:39 -0600, Dale wrote: > P. S.  Is there a tool to make the USE line in make.conf in alphabetical > order or something?  When I add things, I try to put them in order so it > is easier to find them.  For some reason, they are out of order, a lot.  > Something at some