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On Sunday 22 March 2015 23:22:33 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> This is one of the things that is starting to real get on my damn tits |
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> about portage, for about 2 years now. It's not an easy problem to solve, |
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> and to be honest, portage is not helping at all. You have two options in |
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> running it: don't use -v and get very little info, or use -v and get a |
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> terminal dump of the entire graph tree with lots of stuff and zero real |
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> information about how to solve it. Look at my thread with Dale just the |
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> other day, I managed to help him with the correct answer because I had a |
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> magic brainwave to search for the "<" character. |
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> Seriously, what kind of process would ever use that as a problem solving |
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> approach? |
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> In your case, the solution is in the ebuild for acpupsd and it's |
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> specific DEPENDs. Now, I'm generally OK with looking in ebuilds for real |
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> answers and have gotten used to it, but ffs I should not have to do |
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> that. Well-written software should provide that information in it's |
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> output, and it shouldn't be hard to get the software to do it. |
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> Ok, rant over. |
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Sounds like you're volunteering, Alan. ;-) |
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Rgds |
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Peter. |