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I was playing Superliminal the other day and it wasn't doing too well, probably my GPU is too rusty to run it well, and it took down X11. Which meant it was time to update packages and reboot.... |
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Biig mistake... |
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Look, I know a lot of you are in the process of being killed to death by the slow acting poison known as the covid 19 vaccine. I'm really sorry about that neither myself nor God can do jack shit about that at this point. |
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I also know that one of the several pathologies the poison inflicts is a form of brain rot as prion crystals grow and disrupt neural pathways. =\ It really sucks and I wish things had not gotten to this point. |
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Portage is actually working, to some extent this time so I am actually a bit shocked and amazed on that front, it's been ages since it actually worked decently well. |
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But then a large number of absolutely critical things are now broken. |
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-> Xosview can't find the font it needs (!!! WTF???? ) -> None of my steam games play anymore. -> The web browser and mail reader that I've been using since the '90s won't build or run. I've been reduced to using WEBMAIL FOR GOD'S SAKE! to post this. I feel unclean. -> Neither python 3.9 nor 3.10 will finish building. It appears they run some self-tests which fail and then they just freeze up at 0% CPU usage and I never get any clear diagnostic information. -> GCC-11.2 feels like it is mostly working but might be responsible for python failing specific tests as it may have been using trick optimizations that were hacks to start with but now don't work with the current GCC which is actually working as advertised. |
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I think one of the root issues is that llvm-13 deprecated several command line options that broke a number of packages that took a great many more packages down with them. I first just masked clang-13 but that doesn't seem to be enough, I also masked llvm-13 and llvm-common-13 and am running --emptytree world AGAIN. |
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