Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @system

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday 30 Aug 2016 11:56:50 I wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 Aug 2016 12:06:43 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > You should elaborate more and be specific on what you mean by "The
> > reason is an intermittent series of apparently unrelated things going
> > wrong."
>
> Here's one then: In KMail (yes, I know) the folder list contains an item
> "trash" (ugh!), but when I come to empty it it's called "Wastebin" (much
> better) in the drop-down menu.
>
> And another: if I move my user account away and create a new one, setting
> KDE plasma up from scratch (this is ~amd64), the system-settings panel has
> no icons and the single-click-to-open preference is ignored, even though
> it's the default and I already have it set anyway. Then, if I revert to
> the original home directory, which has followed events through the last
> six months, those faults disappear.

One more: I've just emerged sci-misc/boinc, and portage overwrote 
/etc/conf.d/boinc without asking for permission. I have  
/usr/share/applications/boincmgr-boinc.desktop in CONFIG_PROTECT; that was 
overwritten too.

-- 
Rgds
Peter