Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 05:31:29PM -0500, Dale wrote: >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> Allow portage to add the changes to your config, then run etc-update or >>> equivalent. When portage adds package.use changes, it also adds comments >>> showing what requires those changes. With that information, you should be >>> able to see which package is causing this. >> One of us is reading that wrong. Given my eyes, maybe it is me. My new >> glasses should be in within the next week or so. In the first instance, >> it wants py2.7 disabled. So he adds it to the config file to disable >> it. When he runs the command again, it wants to enable py2.7 for the >> same package and version. If I'm reading that right, even if he lets >> emerge add the change, it will lead to two problems. One, there will be >> one line enabling py2.7 and another line disabling it. If I recall >> correctly, emerge will take the last one. Two, he will be back to the >> first problem, it wanting py2.7 disabled. In other words, back where he >> started. >> >> Am I reading that wrong or something?? > Providing he's just adding the line to a package.use file with a text > editor, > that's just manually doing the work of etc-update. We need the `emerge > --info > docutils` output to see full information about his Python environment. >
True but it asks for one thing, then when it is done, it asks for it to be undone. I agree something is off somewhere but I'm not sure using etc-update is going to matter. I do my edits manually as well and rarely use etc-update and friends. Whether done manually or with the tool, the result is the same. The comments it will add to those files are listed in the outputs above. I don't think that is going to shed any new light on the problem either. Seeing the output of emerge --info for that package may shed some light on the problem but allowing etc-update to change the config isn't going to help. It's in one of its circular problems that comes from something else. Maybe we will get more info shortly. Dale :-) :-)
