--- Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Colin wrote:
>
> > I'm compiling my system (emerge -env system), but
> when it gets down to
> > building OpenSSH, it fails, saying "You need Perl
> 5." Pretending and
> > checking the tree shows that Perl 5 will be
> emerged later on during
> > the install. Attempting to "emerge -v perl"
> attempts to emerge
> > svgalib as well (since I haven't built the
> system), which fails saying
> > that the kernel has not been configured yet.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > --
> > Colin
> >
> I ran into the same glitch on a new system. The only
> way I was able to
> get around that was to blank out my USE= in
> /etc/make.conf. I realized
> afterwards that I could have accomplished the same
> by:
>
> USE="*-" emerge -v perl
>
More drastic than my solution but it could be
necessary. I've seen USE="-*" more commonly but maybe
they're equivalent. I believe emerge --nodeps does
basically the same thing.
Zac
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