On 17/03/2015 20:10, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> Your basic problem is that you have static and static-libs in USE. When >> applied to lvm, a whole bunch of blockers kick in and you get what you >> got. So take them out of USE. >> >> USE="static static-libs" has it's uses, it's great for building rescue >> disks, busybox and maybe some disk repair utils, but makes very little >> sense on a regular workstation. If you break your workstation, you'll >> boot off a rescue disk and use the tools on it to fix your install, so >> you don't need it on the main system. >> >> There is nothing wrong with your eudev. >> lvm2 is bitching about blockers between lvm2 built with "USE=static" and >> udev - there's some incompatibility there and the ebuild knows about them >> >> > > I went through the package.use file and commented out the static and > static-libs stuff. It seems happy but thing is, when I put them there, > they were needed for some reason. Actually, all the parts I found had > the output of where emerge said those were needed. Maybe the reason > they were needed then has changed and they are no longer needed. I hope > anyway. ;-) > > Thanks. I'm not sure I would have ever figured out that it was that > causing the problem. That got pretty deep.
I've gotten to the point where I can make sense of portage output (it took a while!) but I have no idea how to explain how I do it :-) Portage makes a very fundamental blunder - it exposes the underlying implementation in the output. The odds are very slim the average user will ever make reasonable sense of it. -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
