Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-24 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 24.06.2011 02:10, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:31:38 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Because the behaviour changed to something that is the exact opposite without any warning. Portage always used to tell what it will do. Now, simply by leaving the relevant options at the

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-24 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 23.06.2011 22:05, schrieb Yohan Pereira: On Thursday 23 Jun 2011 08:59:53 Sebastian Beßler wrote: d) it is an automation, and because of that a red flag for any real gentoo user isnt portage itself a huge amount of automation? :P Yes, but a good ol' automation :-P signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-23 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 23.06.2011 00:58, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:16:30 +0200, Sebastian Beßler wrote: This new behavior is bad, but not as bad as Windows. This is Gentoo after all and not Ubuntu ;-P :-) In what way is it bad? It is bad because a) it is new, and new stuff is always

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-23 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2011/6/22 Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de: Am 22.06.2011 17:31, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Wednesday 22 June 2011 15:44:40 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: It is unset here (well, it's not set, actually - same thing)

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 23 June 2011 08:59:53 Sebastian Beßler did opine thusly: Am 23.06.2011 00:58, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:16:30 +0200, Sebastian Beßler wrote: This new behavior is bad, but not as bad as Windows. This is Gentoo after all and not Ubuntu ;-P :-) In what way

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 23 June 2011 13:31:10 Daniel Pielmeier did opine thusly: 2011/6/22 Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de: Am 22.06.2011 17:31, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Wednesday 22 June 2011 15:44:40 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-23 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Thursday 23 Jun 2011 08:59:53 Sebastian Beßler wrote: d) it is an automation, and because of that a red flag for any real gentoo user isnt portage itself a huge amount of automation? :P -- - Yohan Pereira A man can do as he will, but not will as he will - Schopenhauer

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:38:58 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 23 June 2011 08:59:53 Sebastian Beßler did opine thusly: b) it breaks the way portage displays his informations. Without autounmask the display of emerge shows what he is going to do. With autounmask it shows what needs

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 23 June 2011 23:06:00 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: b) it breaks the way portage displays his informations. Without autounmask the display of emerge shows what he is going to do. With autounmask it shows what needs to be done. That is probably the most evil of

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-23 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 6/23/2011 6:31 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 23 June 2011 23:06:00 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: b) it breaks the way portage displays his informations. Without autounmask the display of emerge shows what he is going to do. With autounmask it shows what needs to be done. That

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:56:19 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: I thought the old behavior was portage would tell me why it's not going to do anything, vs. the new behavior of portage will tell me why it's not going to do anything, plus offer to fix it for me. Not quite. The old behaviour was that

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:31:38 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Because the behaviour changed to something that is the exact opposite without any warning. Portage always used to tell what it will do. Now, simply by leaving the relevant options at the default, it tells me what it should do. How

[gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
# emerge -av claws-mail These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] net-libs/libetpan-1.0 USE=berkdb gnutls sasl ssl - debug -ipv6 -liblockfile 1,631 kB [ebuild N ] x11-libs/fltk-2.0_pre6970-r1 USE=jpeg opengl png xft xinerama

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2011/6/22 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: # emerge -av claws-mail These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild  N     ] net-libs/libetpan-1.0  USE=berkdb gnutls sasl ssl - debug -ipv6 -liblockfile 1,631 kB [ebuild  N     ]

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 10:49:04 Daniel Pielmeier did opine thusly: 2011/6/22 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: # emerge -av claws-mail These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] net-libs/libetpan-1.0 USE=berkdb

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2011/6/22 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On Wednesday 22 June 2011 10:49:04 Daniel Pielmeier did opine thusly: I guess it displays the USE settings how they should be and afterwards prints the required changes. Or does it build fltk with USE=-cairo if you just type emerge -av fltk?

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:18:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: #required by www-client/dillo-2.2, required by mail-client/claws- mail-3.7.9-r1[dillo], required by claws-mail (argument) =x11-libs/fltk-2.0_pre6970-r1 -cairo Any reason why

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 11:31:09 Daniel Pielmeier did opine thusly: 2011/6/22 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On Wednesday 22 June 2011 10:49:04 Daniel Pielmeier did opine thusly: I guess it displays the USE settings how they should be and afterwards prints the required changes.

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 10:47:54 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:18:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: #required by www-client/dillo-2.2, required by mail-client/claws- mail-3.7.9-r1[dillo], required by claws-mail

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:53:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: As Daniel said, this is what portage needs, it's been that way since the autounmask stuff was introduced. In other words, we must now all end up with giganticly bloated package.use files to satisfy every built with use

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2011/6/22 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:18:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: #required by www-client/dillo-2.2, required by mail-client/claws- mail-3.7.9-r1[dillo], required by claws-mail (argument)

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 11:43:20 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:53:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: As Daniel said, this is what portage needs, it's been that way since the autounmask stuff was introduced. In other words, we must now all end up with giganticly

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 12:48:07 Daniel Pielmeier did opine thusly: As Daniel said, this is what portage needs, it's been that way since the autounmask stuff was introduced. Or you could emerge Claws with -dillo and use the fancy plugin for HTML rendering. I stopped using the dillo

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2011/6/22 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: Ah, hang on a sec. It's not quite what I thought. The original emerge command done again, plus just fltk on it's own: # USE=dillo emerge -pv claws-mail ... Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild  N     ] net-libs/libetpan-1.0  

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 14:22:00 Daniel Pielmeier did opine thusly: Portage has always displayed the latter right? That makes sense - you can see what the emerge command would do as entered and compare it to the error to see what the problem is. In this case it's a tweak to package.use

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 22 Jun 2011 13:41:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 22 June 2011 14:22:00 Daniel Pielmeier did opine thusly: Portage has always displayed the latter right? That makes sense - you can see what the emerge command would do as entered and compare it to the error to see what

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: It is unset here (well, it's not set, actually - same thing) autounmask is set by default, you need to explicitly set it to off. I'm a sysadmin, I have an inherent distrust of all things software and automagic-config-changers are

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 15:44:40 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: It is unset here (well, it's not set, actually - same thing) autounmask is set by default, you need to explicitly set it to off. So, is it invisibly on then? I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 22 Jun 2011 16:31:40 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 22 June 2011 15:44:40 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: It is unset here (well, it's not set, actually - same thing) autounmask is set by default, you need to

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:31:40 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: autounmask is set by default, you need to explicitly set it to off. is it invisibly on then? I don't have it in make.conf and it's not in FEATURES: Apparently so, as it doesn't show up in emerge --info here either. I'm a

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 22.06.2011 17:31, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Wednesday 22 June 2011 15:44:40 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: It is unset here (well, it's not set, actually - same thing) autounmask is set by default, you need to explicitly set it to

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 18:30:18 Sebastian Beßler did opine thusly: Am 22.06.2011 17:31, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Wednesday 22 June 2011 15:44:40 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: It is unset here (well, it's not set, actually - same

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 22.06.2011 17:31, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Wednesday 22 June 2011 15:44:40 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: It is unset here (well, it's not set, actually - same thing) autounmask is set by default, you need to explicitly set it to

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 22.06.2011 17:31, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Wednesday 22 June 2011 15:44:40 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: It is unset here (well, it's not set, actually - same thing) autounmask

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 22.06.2011 20:22, schrieb Dale: Sebastian Beßler wrote: It is not a FEATURE its a default option NOTE: This --autounmask behavior can be disabled by setting EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--autounmask=n in make.conf. O, I can't pass this up. That sounds so much like windoze. lol

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 21:16:30 Sebastian Beßler did opine thusly: Am 22.06.2011 20:22, schrieb Dale: Sebastian Beßler wrote: It is not a FEATURE its a default option NOTE: This --autounmask behavior can be disabled by setting EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--autounmask=n in

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 22 Jun 2011 21:12:21 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 22 June 2011 21:16:30 Sebastian Beßler did opine thusly: Am 22.06.2011 20:22, schrieb Dale: Sebastian Beßler wrote: It is not a FEATURE its a default option NOTE: This --autounmask behavior can be disabled by

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:16:30 +0200, Sebastian Beßler wrote: This new behavior is bad, but not as bad as Windows. This is Gentoo after all and not Ubuntu ;-P :-) In what way is it bad? Gentoo used to fail to install stuff because your USE flags were wrong and you had to go on a treasure hunt to

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Matthew Finkel
On 06/22/11 18:58, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:16:30 +0200, Sebastian Beßler wrote: This new behavior is bad, but not as bad as Windows. This is Gentoo after all and not Ubuntu ;-P :-) Some people won't be happy until we go back to Grub style error messages, preferably in