Hi there, * Almost every time* when I try to update packages to the latest snapshot, it would failed by these errors or those errors, I have to say that's really too too bad. Isn't this a big problem of the Portage that users have to hack it every time? * Gentoo is a system with great freedom, but that doesn't mean to be bad user experience.* So I'd like to suggest Gentoo-developers devote minds and move on to develop the Portage, that should do more things and fix issues much more smartly and friendly. I think most Gentoo-users would hope it to be self-moving further.
For example, Sometime when you install or update a package, it would failed by 'masked' reasons and you have to deal with the failure (Though you can use a auto-unmask tool here). However, users would hope the Portage / emerge system give an option to chose Y or N like this: xxx lines of information and warnings about masked package, Would you like to unmask the package and continue the installation? [Y/N]: This would be much better for all users. (It is just an example.) I think A freedom OS with good user experience would help users get to know things and make the choice easily and quickly, without dozens of errors/problems every time. If the Portage can work as well as APT on Debian, then Gentoo can be a good choice for lots of Linux-Users, but not only Gentoo-developers or a spot of users that like to hack the OS every day. As a developer on Linux, I'd like to vote for Gentoo, that is vivid and compendious. But As a Gentoo user, I would say it gets a bad user experience*, *the most problems is not the UI, but the Portage is still too weak and feebleness.* * Thanks, Delian* *
