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Rich Freeman posted on Wed, 04 Jun 2014 07:41:23 -0400 as excerpted: |
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> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
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> wrote: |
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>> Yes, it *is* a simple matter of running one easy command. Portage does |
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>> that for you with trivial ease. But portage doesn't tell you *which* is |
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>> the one easy command. |
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>> A news item does that. |
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> That is the real challenge here. It isn't obvious to most users that |
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> upower is causing the problem, and it is even less obvious to users |
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> without using Google that there is an alternative. |
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> Anybody who doesn't read the lists or GMN wouldn't probably wouldn't |
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> realize that the simple fix exists. |
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This. |
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It's only simple for me because I saw it right here ahead of time, and |
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it's only simple for ssuominen because he knows about the other choice |
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since he created the package. Otherwise, it's an exercise in reading the |
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ebuilds, and a good gentooer should be /able/ to do that, but shouldn't |
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/have/ to do that in the normal case. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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