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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:00:44
Message-Id: 20110622235837.079e09c3@zaphod.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE? by "Sebastian Beßler"
1 On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:16:30 +0200, Sebastian Beßler wrote:
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3 > This new behavior is bad, but not as bad as Windows. This is Gentoo
4 > after all and not Ubuntu ;-P :-)
5
6 In what way is it bad? Gentoo used to fail to install stuff because your
7 USE flags were wrong and you had to go on a treasure hunt to find each
8 one you needed to set, one at a time. Now it simply says "if you want
9 this, set these use flags on those packages" and people still complain.
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11 Some people won't be happy until we go back to Grub style error messages,
12 preferably in binary :(
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15 --
16 Neil Bothwick
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18 Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable

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Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE? Matthew Finkel <matthew.finkel@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE? "Sebastian Beßler" <sebastian@××××××××××××.de>