[gentoo-user] Unusal emerge error concerning x11-misc/xnview

[reader]

Trying to emerge x11-misc/xnview:

,
| root # emerge -vvp * x11-misc/xnview
| 
| These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
| 
| Calculating dependencies \
| 
| !!! The short ebuild name bbdb is ambiguous.  Please specify
| !!! one of the following fully-qualified ebuild names instead:
| 
| app-emacs/bbdb
| app-xemacs/bbdb
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Apparently something is being passed to emerge somewhere I can't see.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Unusal emerge error concerning x11-misc/xnview

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

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)

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