Re: [gentoo-alt] Package failures

[Benda Xu]

Hi William,

Firstly, you need to let people know what exactly fails. " trying to merge
lyx, newsbeuter and fetchmail all fail." is far far from enough. Please use
the bugzilla and follow the guideline[1] to make a good bug report.

Secondly, you may fix the problem yourself by introducing an overlay[2] and
tune the ebuild until it installs. Then be kind to share the effort by
submitting a patch to the bug you opened in step 1. Developers will review
the patch and get it included.

Cheers,
Benda

1. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bugzilla-howto.xml
2. http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:34 PM, William Morris <wrm@××××××××.com> wrote:

> Hi Fabian
>
> I feel I should be able to help instead of just uselessly waiting for a
> fix.  I
> have 20 years experience of C/embedded delevopment so I feel that I should
> be
> able to do something.  But I have no idea where to start.  Is there a
> developer's guide?
>
> Regards
> --
> William
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 09:16:01PM +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > On 01-04-2013 13:02:26 -0500, William Morris wrote:
> > > I have Prefix installed on a Mac (latest OS version) and am happy that
> I can
> > > use mutt and gimp.  But trying to merge lyx, newsbeuter and fetchmail
> all fail.
> > > Am I just unlucky with my package selection or do other users have
> similar
> > > problems?
> >
> > Yes.  Unfortunately not every package out there is working, or still
> > working after updates.  I had Lyx installed at some point.  Could be
> > trivial fixes, could also be very complex.  There may be some bugs
> > already for this.
> >
> > Sorry,
> > Fabian
> >
> > --
> > Fabian Groffen
> > Gentoo on a different level
>
>
>
> --
> William
>
>
>


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XU Benda
Research Center for Neutrino Science
Tohoku University
JAPAN

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