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Am 31.05.2016 um 02:32 schrieb Alan Grimes: |
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> Dale wrote: |
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>> Do you really want a answer to that? Seriously? You asked so I guess |
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>> you do. Here it is. Yes! lol The way you do things, and continue to |
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>> do things, even after having several VERY experienced users tell you |
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>> that the way you are doing things is wrong pretty much says it all. If |
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>> I post that I was doing something and getting a bad result and someone |
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>> such as Neil and/or Alan McKinnon tells me I am doing it wrong, you can |
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>> bet your last dollar that I am about to change how I do things. Why, if |
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>> either or both of them tell me I am doing something wrong, I'm doing it |
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>> wrong. If I continue to do things the same way, well, that would be my |
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>> fault not members of this list or emerge/portage. So far, I don't |
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>> recall seeing a single post that supports how your script is set up. |
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>> Not one, except you of course. |
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> This is linux, not Windows 10. |
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doing stupid things is stupid. No matter which system you are using. |
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> The key difference is that I get to decide how I want my computer to |
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> run. =| |
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if you decide to act stupid, don't complain. |
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> What I am saying is that recent changes have broken a usage pattern that I was quite content with for more than a decade. =\ |
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so you got away with stupid behaviour for a while, but now reality has |
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caught up with you. But instead of rethinking your approach or listening |
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to the advise of others you insist on continuing with your broken crap. |
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Sounds stupid. |
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>> Here's a idea. Since YOU are the only one having this problem, why |
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>> don't YOU change what you are doing to something that actually works? |
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>> What you are doing doesn't work. Try something else. Funny how those |
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>> "stupid" checks work for everyone else. |
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> I'm at 193/250 right now so therefore all discussion of changing my |
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> procedures is tabled until the next time I have troubles (next month...) |
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pretty much whenever your run your stupid script. |
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> I mentioned this before. If you keep posting but then refuse to accept |
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> help, people will start ignoring or blocking your messages. Based on |
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> the posts that I see, I suspect some may have already. At some point, |
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> even I will. I've only ever blocked one other person on this list. I |
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> can see that doubling at some point because you don't come here for help |
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> or accept any when it is given. You just come here to gripe about |
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> things not working like you want when it is your method that is broken. |
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> May I remind you that most modern software has a "check for updates" button that is fully automated... |
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> May I also point out that the stated gentoo update process, of "emerge sync ; emerge --update world rarely actually works or does not have the intended effect without a several dozen qualifiers. I point out here that the qualifiers I use were selected from the ones provided by portage. |
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really? just tried. It worked. What am I doing wrong? |
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