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On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 03:44:30AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: |
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> Nobody else has shown a real example, why should I? |
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> I am focusing on what it could do. I stated all the options in my previous |
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> email. |
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> To restate: How often is it there is exactly one masked version available? |
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> What to do when there are two? |
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How old are you? You sound like some crotchety old fart on a rocking |
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chair on his porch. |
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Good god. Probably once or twice a month I read about some program |
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that sounds interesting, run emerge -p on my amd64, it complains that |
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some dependency is masked, I edit /etc/portage/packages.keywords, |
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emerge -p again, get another complaint about some other top level |
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dependency, rinse, lather, repeat, until I have a half dozen additions |
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or give up in disgust. If you have never had this happen, then I feel |
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sorry for you for being so unadventurous. |
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And the only way I can provide a real world example is wait til it |
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comes around again on the gitar, to quote Arlo, and I am not going to |
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waste my time trying to remember to come back to this dicsussion then, |
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it will be quite cold in its grave, obviously where you want it to go. |
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I swear you have got to be just about the most negative pessimistic |
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whining poster on this list. |
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Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@×××××××.com |
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GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 |
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I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o |
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