Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Neil Bothwick(neil@digimed.co.uk) wrote
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:58:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> > These questions are coming up a lot lately, and it's always the same
> > stuff: how the hell do I read this output? I don;t have these things
> > installed.
>
> [good stuff snipped]
>
> Two other things that help. You have 228 packages marked for
> installation. you can make things a lot clearer by installing some of
> them separately, to reduce the size of the list. Use the --oneshot and
> --update options to prevent pollution of your world file and update the
> dependencies of the files involved. You should be able to get the package
> list down to no more than a dozen, at which point the blocking is much
> easier to evaluate <insert cliche about wood and trees>.
>
> Secondly, you have the doc USE flag set. This is normally not needed,
> and rarely needed globally. Ebuilds should install man/info pages by
> default, USE="doc" adds extra documentation, usually API information for
> programmers, which is why it is rarely needed globally. The doc flag
> increases the dependencies of some packages, sometimes massively.
>

I put the doc flag in there because a number of packages -- and I can't remember which ones now -- needed it, I think apache was one of them, so I gave up and did it -- maybe taking it out for the time being will help things along.

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