Hello, the following topics will surely fit into several categories, but you wizards will know best where it belongs to... Topic #1: After upgrading "ncurses" v5 to v6, recompiling several packages, running "emerge @preserved-rebuild" was necessary, which correctly reinstalls the package "openoffice-bin", but this package installs some python modules under /usr/lib/, which are linked against "ncurses" v5. As a consequence the same message will be shown again and again... Topic #2: While upgrading the video libs "x264" and "x265", another "emerge @preserved-rebuild" was necessary, but the command "emerge -p @..." fails to list the packages needing an update, since several packages from KDE-4 are involved, but the "ebuild" files doesn't exist any more. The only "fix" was to manually mask all related packages (x264, x265, ffmpeg, mplayer, audacious-plugins) with the version, the KDE-4 packages where built against once, but I guess this will lead to problems in the near future. Topic #3: Back in april/may this year I've tried to upgrade KDE-4 to KDE-5, but v5 wasn't really usable, since it was way too slow, logged MBs of debugging messages and the desktop was "naked". Since it's getting more and more tedious to extract all upgrades, which keeps KDE-4 still running and the fact, that several KDE-4 packages can't be rebuild any longer, since the necessary "ebuilds" are missing, a question: is it safe now to upgrade to KDE-5, meaning that the desktop is as usable as it is with KDE-4? In case it would be safe to upgrade to KDE-5 now, is the "ruby" package really necessary for QT-5/KDE-5? Topic #4: While upgrading "sudo" I've noticed that this package has been compiled with gcc's -fstack-protector-strong option, even though I've given the option -fno-stack-protector in /etc/make.conf, which should have precedence IMHO. I've noticed the same a while ago compiling another package, but don't remember myself exactly, which package it was, maybe it was "openssl"... Topic #5: I would prefer generating info-files using "makeinfo --no-split" forcing a single info-file per package - is there a way to configure this inside /etc/make.conf? Finally I would like to say a big THX to all of you, ensuring that the "emerge" system is mostly working without hassles - surely not an easy task. :) Greetings from Germany, Tom # output of: emerge --info Portage 2.3.0 (python 2.7.12-final-0, default/linux/x86/13.0, gcc-4.9.3, glibc-2.22-r4, 4.4.26-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.4.26-gentoo-i686-Pentium-R-_Dual-Core_CPU_T4500_@_2.30GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 2036252 total, 449952 free KiB Swap: 2160736 total, 2155992 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 07:00:01 +0000 sh bash 4.3_p48-r1 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.1) 2.25.1 app-shells/bash: 4.3_p48-r1::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r3::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.22.2::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.12::gentoo, 3.4.5::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.5.2-r1::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.22.4::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.10-r1::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r1::gentoo, 1.14.1::gentoo, 1.15::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.25.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 4.9.3::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r2::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.1-r1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.3::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.22-r4::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-stack-protector" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-stack-protector" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-stack-protector" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-stack-protector" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac accessibility acl acpi alsa amr apache2 berkdb bs2b bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups curl cxx dbus device-mapper dri dts dv dvd dvdr encode espeak exif extensions extras fam festival ffmpeg fftw firefox flac flatfile fontconfig fortran ftp gdbm gif gmp gphoto2 gstreamer iconv icu id3tag imagemagick inotify ipc ipv6 javascript jbig jit jpeg jpeg2k kde kpathsea ladspa lame latex lcms libnotify libsamplerate libsoxr lzma mad mbox mikmod mime mmap mms mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg ncurses nls nntp nptl nsplugin nss ogg opengl openmp opus pam pcmcia pcre pdf plasma plotutils png postscript qt3support qt4 raw readline seccomp session snmp sockets speex spell sqlite sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg syslog sysvipc taglib tcpd theora tiff toolame truetype twolame udev unicode usb vcd vhosts vim-syntax vorbis vpx wavpack webp x264 x265 x86 xattr xft xine xinetd xml xpm xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="32" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2 canon" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse3 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" L10N="de en en_US en_GB" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="de en en_US en_GB" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-6" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby21" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa vmware intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
Hey Tom, thanks for taking the time to describe your experience using Gentoo. Unfortunately this isn't a usable format for a bug tracker: We need one bug per issue with exact log files/output attached. 'Issue' in this context also means an actual bug or feature request; questions per se do not belong here. Please get in touch with our support community: https://www.gentoo.org/support/ They should be able to help you especially with topics 1–3, 4 I think is intentional by upstream, and 5 might be feature request that indeed can be filed as a (separate) bug.
