250730 Eli Schwartz wrote: > 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.
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