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On Monday, May 30, 2016 08:48:46 PM Alan Grimes wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > Have you read the emerge and portage man pages anytime in the last five |
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> > years? |
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> |
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> I tried to extract useful information from the emerge manpage a few days |
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> ago but it contained no useful information, manpages are written in |
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> moonspeak anyway. |
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Then I must be fluent in moonspeak without ever hearing about that language. |
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I find the emerge manpage one of the better manpages around. |
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> I thought portage was just the file database, it |
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> seems to be working perfectly so therefore I have no motive to try to |
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> get any more information about it. I tried to find an on-line wiki about |
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> emerge because that's how shit is documented in the 21st century but |
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> couldn't. I wish I could remember where I got the documentation I needed |
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> to configure the features list I'm using, it's been ages since I've |
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> messed with it... |
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Occasionally there is a problem with a new feature. That gets fixed and |
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everyone is happily using it. By disabling features you haven't got an |
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understanding off and don't even bother to check if it's fixed, you are |
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literally shooting yourself in the foot. |
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Why not pick either of the 2 advices people have given you here and grow up. |
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To make it easier, here are the 2 options: |
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1) Start using MS Windows as it's designed for people like you who refuse to |
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learn new things |
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2) Actually learn how to use a computer |
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-- |
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Joost |
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> ###### |
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> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=1 --quiet-build=n --verbose" |
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> FEATURES="sandbox distlocks nostrip parallel-fetch userfetch userpriv |
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> usersandbox splitdebug |
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> -preserve-libs" |
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> ###### |