On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 05:51:56PM -0800, cal wrote > On 12/21/20 5:33 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > I'm trying to update world on a new install. I can emerge the > > occasional app like syslog-ng or whatever following the Gentoo install > > manual. But when I try to update world, all hell breaks loose. > > Appended output from... > > > > emerge -p --changed-use -deep --update @world > /dev/shm/log.txt 2>&1 > > > > I've bzipped the output for attachment... yes it's *THAT* bad. > > > > You seem to be missing a dash on --deep, which has the unfortunate > consequence of being parsed as -d -e -e -p instead. -d enables debug > mode (hence the ludicrously long output), and -e is short for > --emptytree which is almost certainly not what you wanted to do here. > > Try --deep instead.
Thank you very much, that was it. I feel stupid. Now it's only re-emerging 13 ebuilds after I added "-ipv6" to USE. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
