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On April 29, 2017 4:39:13 PM GMT+02:00, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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>Hello, Gentoo. |
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> |
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>Now able to boot into my new hardware, one of the first things I did |
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>was |
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> |
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> # emerge --sync |
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> |
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>. Fine. The next thing I tried was |
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> |
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> # emerge -auND @world |
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> |
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>, which is probably recommended in the handbook. This was anything but |
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>fine. |
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> |
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>I'm glad I'm not a real Gentoo newby, because I would have been |
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>completely flumoxed by what came up on my screen. |
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> |
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>For a start, I could barely read parts of it, which were displayed in |
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>dark blue text on a black background. Setting up |
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>/etc/portage/color.map |
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>is not the first thing a new user should have to do to be able to read |
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>messages from emerge. This is, however, something I knew had to be |
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>done, and I did it. |
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> |
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>The error message was "Multiple package instances within a single |
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>package slot have been pulled into the dependency graph, resulting in a |
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>slot conflict:". Uhh??? |
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> |
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>Is this gobbledegook really what a new user should be seeing, having |
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>not |
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>yet installed any packages, bar a very few, beyond what is requisite to |
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>bringing a new machine up? |
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> |
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>The actual conflict packages are: |
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> dev-lang/perl-5.24.1-r1:0/5.24::gentoo |
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> and |
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> dev-lang/perl-5.22.3-rc4:0/5.22::gentoo |
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>, "pulled in" by internal system packages I've got no direct interest |
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>in, plus, shockingly, "and 2 more with the same problem" and "and 5 |
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>more |
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>with the same problem". |
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>I'm glad I've got the experience with Gentoo to know it's worth |
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>ploughing on through these messes. |
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>Other than that, it seems like a pretty ghastly mistake by Gentoo's |
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>quality control. I know none of you get paid for it, and you all do it |
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>for love. I admit I probably wouldn't have done the job much better |
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>myself. But for Gentoo's sake, something needs to get better. |
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Alan, |
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I found on several systems that using "--backtrack=100" actually resolved the latest blockers with perl. |
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-- |
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Joost |
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