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

[b.n.]

Hi,

If someone if offended by the title, please don't. It's not my idea: 
read below.

On the recent pointless, funny flame on "Portage VS Paludis", someone 
linked this blog post on the usage of --resume-skipfirst:

http://r0bertz.blogspot.com/2007/01/be-careful-when-you-are-on-paludis.html

(read that and you will understand the title of my mail.)

I actually have to admit that, apparently, I suffer the same mental 
disability of the poster -that is, I used to believe that using 
--resume-skipfirst was harmless.

However in the post no actual explanation was done for that concerning 
diagnosis. :)

Seriously: can someone more skilled than me explain why using 
--resume-skipfirst and then trying to solve the unmerged packages is/can 
be a bad idea? How can this break the system?

In return, I will bring flowers to Algernon.

Thanks a lot,
M.