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On Thursday, 7 May 2020 16:11:03 BST Dale wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > On Wed, 6 May 2020 22:31:54 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> >> There used to be a package that caused some serious problems with |
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> >> upgrades. It was really tricky but I can't recall the name of it since |
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> >> it was ages ago. |
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> > |
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> > expat? I recall that causing some hair loss. |
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> It's possible but it doesn't ring a bell. I recall that the devs did a |
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> guide for the upgrade. We didn't have the news thingy at the time so |
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> people sort of ran into it like a train hitting a concrete wall. It |
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> could get ugly real fast. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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I remember Dale running into some problems many moons ago, specific to his |
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hardware detection, but a portage upgrade was not to blame at the time: |
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https://xkcd.com/1586/ |
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The image alt text is even funnier! :-)) |
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