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Apparently, though unproven, at 00:16 on Tuesday 03 May 2011, Stroller did |
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opine thusly: |
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> On 2/5/2011, at 8:39pm, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > ... |
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> > Two final DONTs: |
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> > Never blindly accept what depclean says and let it do it's thing. Study |
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> > the output, the warning printed on the screen to do just that is there |
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> > for a reason. |
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> > |
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> > Never blindly update protected config files with etc-update etc. Check |
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> > each one individually and do it manually. |
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> Also: DO configure Portage to email its elog messages to you, so that |
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> there's no chance of you failing to read any one of them. I prefer to |
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> process each one before closing the tmux session in which I'm performing |
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> the emerge. |
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> $ grep -i mail /etc/make.conf |
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> PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save mail" |
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> PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="root" |
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> PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM="portage@hostname" |
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> $ |
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> Stroller. |
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Thanks for that, you might have noticed the [1] footnote marker I left, and |
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forgot to add the footnote :-) |
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It was going to say pretty much what you said. I just forgot to do it! |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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