Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-22 Thread gottlieb
On Sat, Jun 21 2014, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 21:20:52 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: The moral is always look for portage trying to downgrade packages and add the appropriate keyword entries when using this approach. The only issue with this is that you never get back to

Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 21:20:52 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: The moral is always look for portage trying to downgrade packages and add the appropriate keyword entries when using this approach. The only issue with this is that you never get back to stable that way. You will, it just takes a

Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 20/06/2014 00:22, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Thu, Jun 19 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 19/06/2014 21:17, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: There are a few more again with no parents Then comes one that I can't understand virtual/libintl:0 (virtual/libintl-0-r1::gentoo, ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 20/06/2014 00:22, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Thu, Jun 19 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 19/06/2014 21:17, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: There are a few more again with no parents Then comes one that I can't understand virtual/libintl:0 (virtual/libintl-0-r1::gentoo, ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 13:33:26 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: These dependency chains can get long and complex, so best is usually to look at the whole thing and see exactly what is going on. Most often you have something in world that is keyworded, or the current version is still ~arch Another

Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: The moral is always look for portage trying to downgrade packages and add the appropriate keyword entries when using this approach. The only issue with this is that you never get back to stable that way. What I usually

[gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-19 Thread gottlieb
(I am in the months long process of converting from testing to stable, using the bothwick going stable method; but I don't believe that is related to the question I am asking.) I was away for several days and have a number of problem with my normally-daily update world. Some may be due to the

Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/06/2014 21:17, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: (I am in the months long process of converting from testing to stable, using the bothwick going stable method; but I don't believe that is related to the question I am asking.) I was away for several days and have a number of problem with my

Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: First thing: I understand why you want to go testing - stable, but at least leave portage unstable. A *lot* of ancient stuff has been fixed in ~arch, it's perfectly safe and robust, and most especially all that

Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/06/2014 23:20, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: First thing: I understand why you want to go testing - stable, but at least leave portage unstable. A *lot* of ancient stuff has been fixed in ~arch, it's perfectly safe and

Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-19 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Jun 19 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 19/06/2014 21:17, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: There are a few more again with no parents Then comes one that I can't understand virtual/libintl:0 (virtual/libintl-0-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by