I ran "emerge -p --deep --update world" on a machine, and got...
==================================================================== * IMPORTANT: config file '/etc/portage/package.use' needs updating. * See the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the emerge * man page to learn how to update config files. These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gnuconfig-20120818 [20120116] [ebuild U ] dev-libs/expat-2.1.0-r2 [2.1.0] [ebuild U ] media-libs/libpng-1.5.13-r1 [1.5.10] [ebuild U ] virtual/libffi-3.0.11 [0] [ebuild N ] dev-libs/gobject-introspection-common-1.32.1 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/elfutils-0.149 USE="bzip2 zlib -lzma -nls" [ebuild U ] app-arch/zip-3.0-r1 [3.0] USE="-natspec%" [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-pages-3.42 [3.41] [ebuild U ] dev-libs/libtasn1-2.13 [2.12] [ebuild U ] app-text/dos2unix-6.0.1 [6.0] [ebuild U ] dev-libs/glib-2.32.4-r1 [2.30.3] [ebuild U ] x11-libs/pango-1.30.1 [1.29.4] [ebuild U ] x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf-2.26.4 [2.24.1-r1] [ebuild U ] dev-libs/atk-2.4.0 [2.2.0] [ebuild U ] media-video/mplayer-1.1-r1 [1.0_rc4_p20110322-r1] USE="iconv*" [ebuild U ] gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.23 [1.14.22] USE="-introspection%" [ebuild U ] net-libs/gnutls-2.12.20 [2.12.18] [ebuild U ] x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-3.4.0 [3.2.1.2] [ebuild U ] gnome-base/librsvg-2.36.1 [2.34.2] [ebuild U ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.12 [2.24.10-r1] [i3][root][~] ==================================================================== I read that section of the emerge man page, and it talks about CONFIG_PROTECT and CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK. The tone of the message seems to indicate there is something wrong with my /etc/portage/package.use file. But I can't figure out what the problem is. Can somebody please explain it in plain English? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
