On 7/30/25 4:50 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > Yes, that's the explanation for the problem. > It comes back that I encountered it before some years ago > & chose to enable 'su' for 'util-linux'. > I've now added lines in 'package.use' to set the flag appropriately > & have successfully updated both pkgs. > > However, I continue to believe that Portage could do a better job > in reporting the nature of the problem.
I agree! :) I believe this is a known issue, which I reported at https://bugs.gentoo.org/916462 Portage's error message wording isn't always the best, it would be very nice if it could be improved. -- Eli Schwartz
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