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On 23/03/2015 11:55, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Sunday 22 March 2015 23:22:33 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> This is one of the things that is starting to real get on my damn tits |
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>> about portage, for about 2 years now. It's not an easy problem to solve, |
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>> and to be honest, portage is not helping at all. You have two options in |
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>> running it: don't use -v and get very little info, or use -v and get a |
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>> terminal dump of the entire graph tree with lots of stuff and zero real |
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>> information about how to solve it. Look at my thread with Dale just the |
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>> other day, I managed to help him with the correct answer because I had a |
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>> magic brainwave to search for the "<" character. |
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>> Seriously, what kind of process would ever use that as a problem solving |
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>> approach? |
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>> In your case, the solution is in the ebuild for acpupsd and it's |
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>> specific DEPENDs. Now, I'm generally OK with looking in ebuilds for real |
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>> answers and have gotten used to it, but ffs I should not have to do |
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>> that. Well-written software should provide that information in it's |
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>> output, and it shouldn't be hard to get the software to do it. |
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>> Ok, rant over. |
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> Sounds like you're volunteering, Alan. ;-) |
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I do have some of the required skills, and I have free time right now. |
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Maybe I'll have a deeper look into portage's code with a view to |
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improving this area. No promises thought :-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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