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From: Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 01:28:01
Message-Id: 5529CA0B.9060102@verizon.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed! by Peter Humphrey
1 Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 > On Saturday 11 April 2015 10:22:09 Alan Grimes wrote:
3 >
4 >> Right now my system is completely unusable and will need fresh stage3
5 >> packages followed by an emerge emptytree to recover. But before I can do
6 >> that, I need a sane profile and to know that the person who pushed out
7 >> the changes to portage, obviously without any testing whatsoever, that
8 >> broke my system so comprehensively is tortured, executed, butchered, and
9 >> then cremated.
10 > Why don't you just start again from scratch, following the official docs? You
11 > don't need to override every little setting; portage knows best, just like
12 > your Ma. Use the force...
13
14 Well, emptytree world seems to be working so far, the official diagnosis
15 is a long-forgotten hack of a work-around to a problem that I must have
16 been dealing with more than two years ago.
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19 --
20 IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel.
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22 Powers are not rights.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed! Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>