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From: Caveman Al Toraboran <toraboracaveman@××××××××××.com>
To: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?
Date: Thu, 07 May 2020 03:50:55
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In Reply to: Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead? by Dale
1 On Thursday, May 7, 2020 7:31 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > Rich Freeman wrote:
4 >
5 > OP, odds are the emerge failure is what triggered the problem.  If it had
6 > completed without failure, it would likely have been a clean update.  This is
7 > why I set up a chroot and do my updates there and use the -k option to
8 > install on my actual system.  It takes very little time and so far, no
9 > breakages on my real system.  If any thing fails, it's more likely to be in
10 > the chroot which won't hurt anything. If you able, may be a option worth
11 > thinking about for yourself as well. 
12 >
13 > Dale
14 >
15 > :-)  :-)
16
17 ya. i said it already. emerge's update failed
18 with some package midways (some package needed
19 some USE flag change), but then layman stopped
20 working in this incomplete state.
21
22 also the issue was simple. but i pointed out that
23 the inconvenience of having a fancy dependency on
24 a pms is still there.

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