On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 09:35:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > <x11-libs/libXfont-1.5.0 required by > (x11-base/xorg-server-1.12.4-r4:0/1.12.4::gentoo, installed) > > This means that you have xorg-server-1.12.4-r4 installed which depends > on libXfont with this limitation: <x11-libs/libXfont-1.5.0 > > You only get that sort of emerge output when portage is forced to > install a package that is NOT latest due to some other package having a > constraint on it dependencies. Look at eix for libXfont, there's a > version 1.5.1 available but portage can't use it because of limitations > from your current version of xorg-server. > > The same process applies to fontsproto as well. > > There is nothing for you to do with this output, it is informational > (but not labelled as such so you can see it). Maybe run emerge without > -v, see if that removes the output
Running without -v doesn't help. I almost never use -v with emerge, it's output is verbose enough as it is and burying useful messages in even more trivial, not-for-users output makes decoding it even harder. emerge really needs an option to hide such "informational" messages. Even if they really were informative, that are not necessary to maintaining a functioning system. When I tell portage to update my system to the latest suitable versions of everything, I have no need to be told "there is a later version for libfoo, but you can't have it". I just want the latest I can have. It doesn't help that these warning messages have a superficial resemblance to blocker errors. emerge --just-tell-me-when-something-is-wrong @world please. -- Neil Bothwick I can't walk on water, but I can stagger on alcohol.
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