Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: William Morris <wrm@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Package failures
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:34:38
Message-Id: 012e7cb52709f1f84fbc661cfb7b948f@smtp.hushmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] Package failures by Fabian Groffen
1 Hi Fabian
2
3 I feel I should be able to help instead of just uselessly waiting for a fix. I
4 have 20 years experience of C/embedded delevopment so I feel that I should be
5 able to do something. But I have no idea where to start. Is there a
6 developer's guide?
7
8 Regards
9 --
10 William
11
12
13 On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 09:16:01PM +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
14 > On 01-04-2013 13:02:26 -0500, William Morris wrote:
15 > > I have Prefix installed on a Mac (latest OS version) and am happy that I can
16 > > use mutt and gimp. But trying to merge lyx, newsbeuter and fetchmail all fail.
17 > > Am I just unlucky with my package selection or do other users have similar
18 > > problems?
19 >
20 > Yes. Unfortunately not every package out there is working, or still
21 > working after updates. I had Lyx installed at some point. Could be
22 > trivial fixes, could also be very complex. There may be some bugs
23 > already for this.
24 >
25 > Sorry,
26 > Fabian
27 >
28 > --
29 > Fabian Groffen
30 > Gentoo on a different level
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34 --
35 William

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Re: [gentoo-alt] Package failures Benda Xu <heroxbd@×××××.com>