Re: [gentoo-user] I am a "f*****g retard". Can you help me?

[Vaeth]

Alan McKinnon wrote:

> "You asked me to do something. It didn't work

But it is an annoyance if you leave your computer on during the three
days you are on the road to compile a load of new packages like e.g.
a new kde version, and when you return, compiling has not even started
because your first pacakge fortune-mod had a trivial file collision.

> A failed emerge is by definition an error, and unpredictable. How can we
> expect software to dream up the best solution to an exception?

Since the best solution to this exception is to finish that part of
the task which is not influenced by this error, I think the
expectation for this exception is clear.