Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-16 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 16.08.2011 02:18, schrieb Dale: Sebastian Beßler wrote: But why was autounmask=y complaining but not autounmask=n? The dependency of the virtual was missing both times so shouldn't emerge spit some error out both times? Greetings Sebastian Because autounmask=n assumes you

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-16 Thread Dale
Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 16.08.2011 02:18, schrieb Dale: Sebastian Beßler wrote: But why was autounmask=y complaining but not autounmask=n? The dependency of the virtual was missing both times so shouldn't emerge spit some error out both times? Greetings Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 14:33, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Well, it could be that I'm reading the error incorrectly too.  Ask people how much fun it is for me to figure out what the heck portage is puking on my keyboard.  I have had Alan explain it to me, what he says makes sense but it

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-16 Thread Dale
Pandu Poluan wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 14:33, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Well, it could be that I'm reading the error incorrectly too. Ask people how much fun it is for me to figure out what the heck portage is puking on my keyboard. I have had Alan explain it to me, what he

[gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-15 Thread Sebastian Beßler
I just tried emerge -DuN @world @system -va and got: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ... done! [ebuild U ] perl-core/ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.20.0 [2.22.06] 0 kB [ebuild U ] www-client/firefox-bin-5.0 [3.6.19] USE=startup-notification [ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon 15 August 2011 19:31:37 Sebastian Beßler did opine thusly: I just tried emerge -DuN @world @system -va and got: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ... done! [ebuild U ] perl-core/ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.20.0 [2.22.06] 0 kB [ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-15 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 15.08.2011 20:02, schrieb Alan McKinnon: It's not a bug, portage is doing what it should. In the first case portage will try upgrade all packages to the latest version. It sees that you asked it to try autounmask stuff, so it wants to override your local mask for ExtUtils-ParseXS. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon 15 August 2011 20:55:12 Sebastian Beßler did opine thusly: Am 15.08.2011 20:02, schrieb Alan McKinnon: It's not a bug, portage is doing what it should. In the first case portage will try upgrade all packages to the latest version. It sees that you asked it to try autounmask

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-15 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Do you have autounmask enabled or disabled in your config for portage? That first example you gave strongly indicates you have it enabled. I'm thinking the same thing. It seems to be enabled by default I think. I know it is here and I didn't do it. It just sort

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon 15 August 2011 15:12:09 Dale did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon wrote: Do you have autounmask enabled or disabled in your config for portage? That first example you gave strongly indicates you have it enabled. I'm thinking the same thing. It seems to be enabled by default I

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-15 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 15.08.2011 21:34, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Do you have autounmask enabled or disabled in your config for portage? I have it enabled because it is enabled by default. You have to explicit disable it. So, because it is enabled by default, I never asked portage to autounmask anything for me.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Why is autounmask trying to unmask ExtUtils-ParseXS if it's not needed? Should I report this as a bug? I think it's only telling you what you should unmask. Setting --autounmask=n simply makes it stop giving you

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-15 Thread Dale
Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 15.08.2011 21:34, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Do you have autounmask enabled or disabled in your config for portage? I have it enabled because it is enabled by default. You have to explicit disable it. So, because it is enabled by default, I never asked portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-15 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 15.08.2011 23:33, schrieb Paul Hartman: Use --tree to get a better idea what package wants the newer ExtUtils-ParseXS I narrowed it down to emerge perl-core/Module-Build -vp These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ... done! [ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-15 Thread Dale
Sebastian Beßler wrote: But why was autounmask=y complaining but not autounmask=n? The dependency of the virtual was missing both times so shouldn't emerge spit some error out both times? Greetings Sebastian Because autounmask=n assumes you don't want to upgrade anything that is