From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:11:44 +0000 (-0000)
Subject: For installed packages with invalid depstrings, tell the user the location of the... 
X-Git-Tag: v2.1.2~255
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4a177ec5a8f7281d73a92c48f575fc432f2d6628;p=portage.git

For installed packages with invalid depstrings, tell the user the location of the *DEPEND files.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=5341
---

diff --git a/bin/emerge b/bin/emerge
index 8d310da48..153160d8b 100755
--- a/bin/emerge
+++ b/bin/emerge
@@ -816,12 +816,16 @@ def show_invalid_depstring_notice(parent_node, depstring, error_msg):
 	p_type, p_root, p_key, p_status = parent_node
 	msg = []
 	if p_status == "nomerge":
+		category, pf = portage.catsplit(p_key)
+		pkg_location = os.path.join(p_root, portage.VDB_PATH, category, pf)
 		msg.append("Portage is unable to process the dependencies of the ")
 		msg.append("'%s' package. " % p_key)
 		msg.append("In order to correct this problem, the package ")
 		msg.append("should be uninstalled, reinstalled, or upgraded. ")
 		msg.append("As a temporary workaround, the --nodeps option can ")
-		msg.append("be used to ignore all dependencies.")
+		msg.append("be used to ignore all dependencies.  For reference, ")
+		msg.append("the problematic dependencies can be found in the ")
+		msg.append("*DEPEND files located in '%s/'." % pkg_location)
 	else:
 		msg.append("This package can not be installed.  ")
 		msg.append("Please notify the '%s' package maintainer " % p_key)