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

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

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

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)