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Ben Kohler wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o |
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> <mailto:ssuominen@g.o>> wrote: |
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> Wrong. I'm always using the -t (--tree) flag with Portage and I |
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> would |
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> have seen upower being the culprit immediately, |
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> and second command would have been `eix upower` to see available |
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> versions, at which point I would have seen |
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> upower-pm-utils, and figured it out. |
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> - Samuli |
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> I'm glad this fire has mostly been put out, but I think you are making |
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> quite a leap here that normal users can "see upower-pm-utils, and |
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> figure it out". You may be too close to this problem to understand |
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> just how confusing it is to everyone else. |
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> No offense intended. |
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> -Ben |
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As a user, I have ran into blockers quite a few times. I either end up |
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asking on -user or using the trial and error approach. A lot of the |
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time, the trial and error approach fails and I still end up posting on |
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-user or find where someone else beat me to it. It's rare with the |
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output that portage gives that I can figure out why something is |
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blocking. Generally this is just a issue of a different version of the |
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same package being needed. |
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Given that in this case it is a entirely different package that is |
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needed to resolve it, I certainly would have been posting on -user. |
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Unless portage spelled it out that I needed to use a different package |
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all together, it would have never occurred to me. |
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I might add, I been using Gentoo since 2003. I'm not a dev for sure and |
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don't do scripting stuff so diggin in the ebuilds doesn't generally help |
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me much either. |
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Just a users point of view. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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