Apparently, though unproven, at 00:34 on Wednesday 02 February 2011, Dale did opine thusly:
> Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Yup, that output looks much better. > > > > And you can take a roasting joke in your stride (good man!). > > > > I think we all need to put our heads together and come up with sensible > > formatting for emerge's error output. Coz I'm sure getting tired of > > pawing my way through endless lines of cruft to get to the thing that > > really matters. > > The output from emerge is sometimes confusing. Just when I think I got > something figured out, they change it and I'm lost again. Sometimes I > don't realize it is changed either and that is really confusing. I did > learn a while back that a lot of things is listed backwards. Sometimes > tho with some options, it seems to reverse it and throws me for a loop. > Sometimes I wonder. It makes sense to a programmer. Zac builds a data structure in memory representing the dependency graph of stuff to be emerged. And when an error happens, he dumps it to console. If it were perl, it's like he called Data::Dumper. The order changes probably because he adds statements to order the data structure. > I didn't realize it was a joke. I'm not sure what is in our water > anymore. I know it makes girls have bigger juggs tho. ROFLMAO I think > the water is changing tho. I just hope the juggs, natural ones, stay > the same. O_O You need to come to Africa. We've got the original and best ones :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
