Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday 16 Aug 2016 16:58:20 hw wrote:

> Three months is not "ridiculously outdated", yet the update doesn´t work.

Three months *is* a dangerously long time to leave a Gentoo system, whether 
you like it or not, and just asking for trouble. Eighteen months is worse 
than ridiculous - it's impossible to work with.

> 1.5 years isn´t "ridiculously outdated", either --- maybe a bit old, but
> what´s the problem?

You aren't listening. You've already had several answers. Just go back and 
read them - and be prepared to admit that you might be mistaken here and 
there.

Several of the world's most highly qualified experts on running Gentoo 
systems have offered you their advice. I submit that it would be arrogant to 
ignore it or repudiate it.

--->8

> It would [...] be much easier if emerge [didn't] print dark blue on black,
> which makes it even harder to read the output ...

I dislike that colour combination too. Two possibilities: either specify 
nocolor, or select the dark text with the mouse to show it in what we used 
to call reverse-video.

> The messages are cryptic, and you have to guess what they are trying to
> tell you.

*Guess?* Good God, man. You don't guess - you use your experience and your 
logical reasoning to deduce likely cause and effect.

If you aren't prepared to learn how to maintain it, to put it bluntly Gentoo 
is not for you. You've been told that several times too.

I'm sure none of us want to drive you away, but you make it clearer each day 
that you don't want to adapt to Gentoo. You may argue that the machine 
should adapt itself to the human, not vice versa, but that requires you to 
choose a setup that tries to do so. Gentoo is not that system. Full stop.

-- 
Rgds
Peter