Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Joshua Schmidlkofer <joshland@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A blog entry about gentoo
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:46:43
Message-Id: 49D2F1AD.4080904@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] A blog entry about gentoo by Alan McKinnon
1 On 3/25/09 4:43 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 25 March 2009 12:38:53 David wrote:
3 >
4 >> I wrote an entry in my blog about gentoo, and created a little script to
5 >> make gentoo handling a bit easier, and whant to share it will all gentoo
6 >> users to see if it could help them to understand gentoo better (specially
7 >> for noob ones), and simplify its handling.
8 >>
9 >> I think it is not spam, since it could help others (I hope so).
10 >>
11 >> The link: http://stormbyte.blogspot.com/2009/03/gentoo-easy-handling.html
12 >>
13 >> David.
14 >>
15 >
16 > It's far too simplistic. It doesn't take account of dependencies that must
17 > also be masked/unmasked/whatever and will cause obscure error messages that
18 > will confuse the user more than simply using portage.
19 >
20 >
21
22 HAHAHA! Yeah, that's why I wrote the poorly received "bastard"
23
24 Good luck with it. I think it kicks ass, and totally ignores
25 everything. I use this everywhere.
26
27 e.g.
28
29 bastard =gnome-2.18"*"
30 bastard =nginx-0.7"*"
31 bastard =postgresql-server-8.3"*"
32
33 Unmasking-the-new-Gnome/KDE-ly Yours,
34 Joshua

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