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On Friday 25 April 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 09:07:17PM +0200, Justin wrote |
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> > Why are you doing things without knowing about the consequences? |
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> > Always ask before you are doing things which could be stupid!!! |
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> In my case, this was the umpteenth time I encountered circular |
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> blocks. After asking the first couple of times, I settled down to a |
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> pattern of unmerging both halves of the problem and restarting the |
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> emerge. This has worked fine until now. And yes, I've seen the |
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> warning about "may harm your system" a lot of times. If it didn't |
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> come up as often as Vista's UAC warning, when manually unmerging |
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> stuff, I probably would've asked first. |
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There's really only one way t deal with circular blockers, and that is |
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to know enough about why the blocker is there to make a decision about |
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it. You have to act like say an Ubuntu maintainer as that is really |
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what you are doing, just local to your own system. |
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I tend to read the ebuilds if I don't know the packages well. If |
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upgrades are involved, I invariably have to unmerge the older one (it |
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clashes with a new way of doing things). If one of the packages is |
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something new, then I must decide which one I want to keep. |
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Elog messages with yellow stars should *never* be ignored. Unlike UAC, |
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they are not there with the express purpose of annoying users. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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