[gentoo-dev] Can't the Portage be an efficient guy?

[Delian Xu]

Hi there,
* Almost every time* when I try to update packages to the latest snapshot,
it would failed by these errors or those errors,
I have to say that's really too too bad. Isn't this a big problem of the
Portage that users have to hack it every time?
* Gentoo is a system with great freedom, but that doesn't mean to be bad
user experience.*
 So I'd like to suggest Gentoo-developers devote minds and move on to
develop the Portage, that should do more things and
fix issues much more smartly and friendly. I think most Gentoo-users would
hope it to be self-moving further.

For example,
 Sometime when you install or update a package, it would failed by 'masked'
reasons and you have to deal with the failure
(Though you can use a auto-unmask tool here).   However, users would hope
the Portage / emerge system give an option
to chose Y or N like this:
   xxx lines of information and warnings about masked package,
   Would you like to unmask the package and continue the installation?
[Y/N]:

 This would be much better for all users.  (It is just an example.)


 I think A freedom OS with good user experience would help users get to know
things and make the choice easily
and quickly, without dozens of errors/problems every time.
 If the Portage can work as well as APT on Debian, then Gentoo can be a good
choice for lots of Linux-Users, but
not only Gentoo-developers or a spot of users that like to hack the OS every
day.


As a developer on Linux, I'd like to vote for Gentoo, that is vivid and
compendious. But
As a Gentoo user, I would say it gets a bad user experience*, *the most
problems is not the UI, but the Portage is still
too weak and feebleness.*
*
Thanks,
Delian*
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