Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-11 Thread YoYo Siska
Zac Medico wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: > > >>>YoYo Siska wrote: >> >why should it handle USE flags in any way? >it just tels portage not to emerge the dependencie, whatever they are ( >when added by use flags..) > >that means >USE="alsa" emerge --nodeps mplayer >would (

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-11 Thread Zac Medico
Zac Medico wrote: >> YoYo Siska wrote: > why should it handle USE flags in any way? it just tels portage not to emerge the dependencie, whatever they are ( when added by use flags..) that means USE="alsa" emerge --nodeps mplayer would (try to) compile mplayer _wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-11 Thread Zac Medico
YoYo Siska wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: > >>YoYo Siska wrote: >> >> >>>Zac Medico wrote: >>> >>> >>> More drastic than my solution but it could be necessary. I've seen USE="-*" more commonly but maybe they're equivalent. I believe emerge --nodeps does basically the same thing. >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-11 Thread YoYo Siska
Zac Medico wrote: > YoYo Siska wrote: > >>Zac Medico wrote: >> >> >>>More drastic than my solution but it could be >>>necessary. I've seen USE="-*" more commonly but maybe >>>they're equivalent. I believe emerge --nodeps does >>>basically the same thing. >> >>no >>USE="-*" skips all optional dep

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-11 Thread Zac Medico
YoYo Siska wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: > >>More drastic than my solution but it could be >>necessary. I've seen USE="-*" more commonly but maybe >>they're equivalent. I believe emerge --nodeps does >>basically the same thing. > > no > USE="-*" skips all optional dependencies (depending on a use

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-11 Thread YoYo Siska
Zac Medico wrote: >>afterwards that I could have accomplished the same >>by: >> >>USE="*-" emerge -v perl >> > > > More drastic than my solution but it could be > necessary. I've seen USE="-*" more commonly but maybe > they're equivalent. I believe emerge --nodeps does > basically the same thin

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:51:20 -0700, Ted Ozolins wrote: > I ran into the same glitch on a new system. The only way I was able to > get around that was to blank out my USE= in /etc/make.conf. I realized > afterwards that I could have accomplished the same by: > > USE="*-" emerge -v perl They aren'

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-10 Thread Zac Medico
--- Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now that I've been thinking about it for a while, if > OpenSSH needs Perl, > shouldn't Perl be built before OpenSSH? This seems > like an ebuild bug > to me. > openssh depends on autoconf which depends on perl. Apparently you have autoconf but not per

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-10 Thread Colin
Zac Medico wrote: --- Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm compiling my system (emerge -env system), but when it gets down to building OpenSSH, it fails, saying "You need Perl 5." Pretending and checking the tree shows that Perl 5 will be emerged later on during the install. Attempting to

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-10 Thread Zac Medico
--- Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Colin wrote: > > > I'm compiling my system (emerge -env system), but > when it gets down to > > building OpenSSH, it fails, saying "You need Perl > 5." Pretending and > > checking the tree shows that Perl 5 will be > emerged later on during > > the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-10 Thread Ted Ozolins
Colin wrote: > I'm compiling my system (emerge -env system), but when it gets down to > building OpenSSH, it fails, saying "You need Perl 5." Pretending and > checking the tree shows that Perl 5 will be emerged later on during > the install. Attempting to "emerge -v perl" attempts to emerge > sv

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5

2005-06-10 Thread Zac Medico
--- Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm compiling my system (emerge -env system), but > when it gets down to > building OpenSSH, it fails, saying "You need Perl > 5." Pretending and > checking the tree shows that Perl 5 will be emerged > later on during the > install. Attempting to "emer