Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-22 Thread gottlieb
On Sat, Jun 21 2014, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 21:20:52 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> > The moral is always look for portage trying to downgrade packages and >> > add the appropriate keyword entries when using this approach. >> > >> >> The only issue with this is that you nev

Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 21:20:52 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > The moral is always look for portage trying to downgrade packages and > > add the appropriate keyword entries when using this approach. > > > > The only issue with this is that you never get back to stable that way. You will, it just

Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > The moral is always look for portage trying to downgrade packages and add > the appropriate keyword entries when using this approach. > The only issue with this is that you never get back to stable that way. What I usually do if I am trac

Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 13:33:26 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > These dependency chains can get long and complex, so best is usually to > look at the whole thing and see exactly what is going on. Most often you > have something in world that is keyworded, or the current version is > still ~arch Anothe

Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 20/06/2014 00:22, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On 19/06/2014 21:17, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >>> >>> There are a few more again with "no parents ...". Then comes one that I >>> can't understand >>> >>> virtual/libintl:0 >>> >>> (virtual/libintl-

Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 20/06/2014 00:22, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On 19/06/2014 21:17, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >>> >>> There are a few more again with "no parents ...". Then comes one that I >>> can't understand >>> >>> virtual/libintl:0 >>> >>> (virtual/libintl-

Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-19 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Jun 19 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 19/06/2014 21:17, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >> >> There are a few more again with "no parents ...". Then comes one that I >> can't understand >> >> virtual/libintl:0 >> >> (virtual/libintl-0-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by

Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/06/2014 23:20, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> First thing: I understand why you want to go testing -> stable, but at >> least leave portage unstable. A *lot* of ancient stuff has been fixed in >> ~arch, it's perfectly safe and robust, and mo

Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > First thing: I understand why you want to go testing -> stable, but at > least leave portage unstable. A *lot* of ancient stuff has been fixed in > ~arch, it's perfectly safe and robust, and most especially all that > stupid "no parents that

Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/06/2014 21:17, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > (I am in the months long process of converting from testing to stable, > using the bothwick "going stable" method; but I don't believe that is > related to the question I am asking.) > > I was away for several days and have a number of problem with my

[gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-19 Thread gottlieb
(I am in the months long process of converting from testing to stable, using the bothwick "going stable" method; but I don't believe that is related to the question I am asking.) I was away for several days and have a number of problem with my normally-daily update world. Some may be due to the t