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On Saturday 16 Apr 2016 11:10:45 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 16/04/2016 05:36, Alan Grimes wrote: |
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> > Emerge won't update a single goddammned package on my system. |
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> > My number theory code finished a segment of work, (after a month), and |
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> > it's time to reboot the system to propagate updates to nvidia drivers |
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> > and such, uptime = 81 days. |
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> > I thought the hell emerge put me through last time would cover me for |
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> > the next six months... =( |
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> > Emerge seems to want to pretend it is possible to update packages |
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> > without breaking anything. It's not. That's why there's revdep-rebuild. |
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> > It is causing much much much more grief by refusing to do it's goddamned |
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> > motherfucking job than it would be by giving revdep-rebulid a chance to |
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> > do it's job. |
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> Hello Mr Grimes, |
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> I see you still have trouble dealing with your rage issues. |
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> I recommend you seek professional help about that. |
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Nah! Let the man vent. Gentoo is a particularly effective (meta)distro for |
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this purpose too. It will invariably do *exactly* what you instruct it, |
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although this comes with no guarantee this will be what wanted it to do. |
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It forces you to learn through practice. ;-) |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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