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150427 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 27/04/2015 00:23, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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>> I'm not saying it can't be done, but it's deceptively hard |
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>> to automatically come up with a list of non-ridiculous suggestions |
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>> before the user in question dies of old age : https://xkcd.com/1425/ . |
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That expresses the extremes well enough, |
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but one would hope that the Portage output problem lies between them. |
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> I'm aware of the scope of the problem, and I'm not asking Portage |
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> to infer what I might want or suggest solutions I didn't ask for. |
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> Besides, "what I want" is already unambiguously defined by world |
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> and the contents of /etc/portage/. |
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> I'd be much happier if portage took the information *it already has* |
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> and formatted its output a tad more parseable to human brains. |
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> Right now what it's doing is the equivalent of a core dump |
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> with "ah, fuck it, I give up. Here, you figure this shit out". |
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This expresses Gentoo users' difficulties all too well (smile). |
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What we are asking is for the devs to accept there is a problem, |
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have a proper look at it & try to make Portage output more understandable. |
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We are always grateful for their volunteer efforts. |
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