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On 30/07/2014 19:57, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> Am 29.07.2014 19:04, schrieb behrouz khosravi: |
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>> Hello everyone. |
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>> I just concurred my fear and jumped to installing gentoo! |
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>> So far so good! |
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>> Before installing on my laptop and desktop, I am trying on virtual box |
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>> and the system is running Fluxbox very good.(default profile) |
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>> Now I am thinking about managing USE flags. |
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>> What if I disable everything in the make.conf ( I mean USE="-*" ) and |
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>> gradually add the needed flags to package.use? |
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> you will break you system. |
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Volker is correct. |
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The reason you will break your system is that you do not have enough |
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knowledge to know what to put back, and you don't know how to read the |
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error messages and know what they mean. |
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Here's what portage does NOT do: |
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Tell you that flag x is missing and this will cause issues a, b and c, |
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then give you exact instructions how to make it better. |
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Here's what portage DOES do: |
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Give you some weird error message with the word "backtrack" in it, or |
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messages like "no parents that could not be satisfied by other packages |
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in slot" or something about blockers in flashing red blink text, or it |
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might even just say nothing giving the impression everything succeeded. |
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And then your computer explodes. |
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Still wanna try USE="-*" ? |
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>> I am not trying to have severe control, I just want to expand my knowledge! |
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>> thanks. |
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> then don't do stupid things like USE=-* |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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