Re: Problem Emerging Gnome3 on Fresh Install

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Tyrin Price wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 09:39:27AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> >"exactly-one-of" means just that.  The package (in this case
> >app-misc/tracker-0.16.2) requires exactly one of the use flags
> >("gstreamer", "xine").  You have "-gstreamer" and "-xine" and therefore
> >violate the constraint.
> >
> >I recomment enabling "gstreamer". As you'll likely be pulling it in
> >anyway for GNOME.
> >
> 
> Yes, I had tried being very specific in package.use with:
> 
> =app-misc/tracker-0.16 gstreamer
> 
> and
> 
> =app-misc/tracker-0.16 xine
> 
> But, those did not work. Tried...
> 
> app-misc/tracker gstreamer
> 
> ...and succeeded.
> 

That's because 0.16.2 != 0.16.

In general, avoid being *too* specific.  Especially when there is no
need for that level of specificity. (E.g. why only allow gstreamer for
tracker-0.16?  What happens when 0.16.x comes out?   What about 0.17?).