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 which I'm perfectly happy to > > do. > > > > I think it's bug time, portage is displaying the wrong output > > for > > failures. > > You can try if you get the desired output if FEATURES="-autounmask". > If you enable autounmask portage automatically enableds the > required changes and tells you the changes required to your > configuration.
It is unset here (well, it's not set, actually - same thing) I'm a sysadmin, I have an inherent distrust of all things software and automagic-config-changers are scary things indeed :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
