Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Akregator.
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:10:40
Message-Id: 4123273.Ra5Ygc5JuC@andromeda
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Akregator. by Alan Grimes
1 On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 09:03:30 AM Alan Grimes wrote:
2 > Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 > >> =kde-base/baloo-1.0
4 > >
5 > > Then you haven't done much manual reading in the last ten years.
6 >
7 > It's not like it's holy scripture that I just read periodically just 'cuz.
8
9 If at first you fail, you consult the manual.
10 If you don't, you will keep failing miserably and will never learn anything.
11
12 > >> or something, which I think it had to be at one point in time. or
13 > >> something to target the kde4 version and not the kde 5 version, or some
14 > >> other ninjitsu.
15 > >
16 > > If you had read the error message properly, you would see that is not
17 > > necessary as the two conflicting version of baloo are in different
18 > > categories. Perhaps you should put down your rant-pen for a few minutes
19 > > and spend the time on something constructive, like reading the Gentoo
20 > > handbook or man pages.
21 >
22 > Manpages are universally written in moonspeak, reading them is entirely
23 > nonproductive.
24
25 Some require a basic minimum knowledge-level of what you are trying to do.
26 Quite a few are actually quite well written.
27
28 The handbook is a different matter completely. That is quite comprehensive and
29 written in plain english. Have you bothered checking that?
30
31 --
32 Joost