Jerry McBride wrote:
On Sunday 08 February 2004 05:25 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
I use the -D to keep dependencies updated. I'd use the -U if it worked. So my question remains - a) can I tell portage to realize that the alsa stuff I have installed is okay - is it possible and b) how do I get -U to work also.
I know I'll get flamed for this... but in my humble opinion portage has some serious bugs in it still. Along with your malfunctioning -U switch, I've seen any number of odd behavours from it. Seeing all the increments in the portage tree, maybe this will all be fixed one day soon. That aside, I just "emerge -i " the offending ebuild and I'm never bothered for it again... Untill the next broken ebuild is tossed into portage, that is......
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