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Bug 379327 - Poor wording of error message for invalid /etc/make.profile symlink
Summary: Poor wording of error message for invalid /etc/make.profile symlink
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal trivial (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Keywords: InVCS
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Blocks: 381649
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Reported: 2011-08-15 20:35 UTC by Mark Wagner
Modified: 2011-09-19 04:16 UTC (History)
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Description Mark Wagner 2011-08-15 20:35:27 UTC 
The error message for running "emerge" with an invalid /etc/make.profile symlink is as follows:

!!! If you have just changed your profile configuration, you should revert
!!! back to the previous configuration. Due to your current profile being
!!! invalid, allowed actions are limited to --help, --info, --sync, and
!!! --version.

The important information ("your current profile is invalid") isn't mentioned until the second sentence.  A better wording might be:

!!! Your current profile is invalid.  If you have just changed your
!!! profile configuration, you should revert back to the previous 
!!! configuration.
!!! Allowed actions are limited to --help, --info, --sync, and --version.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2011-09-19 04:16:59 UTC 
This is fixed in 2.1.10.12 and 2.2.0_alpha52.