On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:58:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > These questions are coming up a lot lately, and it's always the same > stuff: how the hell do I read this output? I don;t have these things > installed.
[good stuff snipped] Two other things that help. You have 228 packages marked for installation. you can make things a lot clearer by installing some of them separately, to reduce the size of the list. Use the --oneshot and --update options to prevent pollution of your world file and update the dependencies of the files involved. You should be able to get the package list down to no more than a dozen, at which point the blocking is much easier to evaluate <insert cliche about wood and trees>. Secondly, you have the doc USE flag set. This is normally not needed, and rarely needed globally. Ebuilds should install man/info pages by default, USE="doc" adds extra documentation, usually API information for programmers, which is why it is rarely needed globally. The doc flag increases the dependencies of some packages, sometimes massively. -- Neil Bothwick Very funny Scotty.. now beam down my pants!
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