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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: Jim Cunning <jcunning@×××××××××××.org>
Cc: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot figure out emerge blocks
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:47:24
Message-Id: 200906172347.11607.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot figure out emerge blocks by Jim Cunning
1 On Mittwoch 17 Juni 2009, Jim Cunning wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 17 June 2009 14:07:01 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > please consider searching the email archives for this list in the future.
4 > > The phonon mess has been explained only a few days ago.
5 > >
6 > > as a kde user you want media-sound/phonon
7 > > all you need to know:
8 > > http://ben.liveforge.org/2009/06/03/preventing-the-qt-phonon-vs-phonon-bl
9 > >oc k
10 >
11 > Looking through http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user didn't give me any
12 > more information than I already had, namely the problem with kde 3.5.9 vs
13 > 3.5.10 blocking issues, and monolithic vs -meta ebuilds.
14 >
15 > I didn't know about the phonon issues, and going back to the archive, I
16 > still didn't see any reference to it.
17 >
18 > Sorry to have offended you.
19
20 you didn't 'offend' me. It is a simple fact that you can save yourself a lot
21 of time and keep frustration away searching the archives.
22
23 I just let kmail search for 'phonon' which gave me as a result the 'strange
24 world' thread where someone had the same problem: phonon blocks.
25 It really had advantages to keep all the mails local ;)
26 But even then - your google-fu seems lacking ;)