On Thu, 22 May 2014 10:30:39 +0100 Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> doc flag is at fault here. You have changed other flags, such as > ipv6, so the advice is to make such sweeping USE flag changes one at > a time. This often avoids the problem and otherwise makes it easier > to see. Point taken, thanks. > the output you posted is hard to read because your mailer wrapped it > but it may be that updating sysvinit manually first will clear it. > > emerge -1a sysvinit It did it indeed, so the immediate problem is solved, thanks a lot for that. However, I'd be obliged if you could tell me what was wrong and why an update cleared it? I genuinely don't understand what goes on and I'd be keen to learn about how Gentoo manages dependencies. Thanks, Zoltan
