A. Khattri wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
>
>
>>Or don't upgrade anything at all -or- use a more upgrade-friendly system.
>
>
> It is considered good practice to do a dry run with "emere -pv" before
> installing any package to see what USE flags are in use and what
> dependencies there are. If you dont, then you might get suprises like
> this. The Gentoo documentation even mentions this several times. Therefore
> the error seems to lie between your keyboard and your chair.
>
>
Sure, but i simply don't have the time to check all this on each
upgrade, and for me, the concept of USE flags has grown too complex. I
will switch to a less "surprise offering" distribution on the next occasion.
BTW, xterm has also been broken by this upgrade.
"xterm -geometry 180x6+0+885" displays an empty window.
Regards,
Heinrich
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