On 10/07/2014 21:42, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 10/07/2014 20:11, List Reader wrote: >>> Okay, I see. Thank you so much. Soo so much. I thought I was going round >>> the twist, or hopelesly ignorant. I couln't understand why emerge didn't >>> offer me >>> --autounmask-write, so I could dispatch-conf and move on. I was having >>> similar problems with media-gfx/freecad and some others, but eselecting the >>> apropriate target/slot thing made it go. Okay, that's it for today. My >>> eys hurt. I'll do it in the morning. you guys are great. I'm going to bed. >> >> Stick with it, it gets easier. Portage *does* have it's special way of >> looking at the world, but after a while it starts to make some kind of >> sense. It just doesn't happen quickly, you have to persist with the damn >> thing :-) >> >> > > > After a little over 10 years, I'm still trying to get portage. Just > when I start to make sense of something, they change the thing. I > wonder if they do it just to pick on me. "Let's make the error spit out > backwards just to screw with Dale." Yep. I bet that's it. ROFL
You're /almost/ right Actually, some clever dev wrote a script that polls this list, and every 23 times Dale uses the word "thingie" it makes a semi-random change to the portage code. Each init-thingie counts as three regular thingies. The changes are semi-random not fully properly random because the changes are crafted to mess with Dale's head. So now you know. It's not you and it isn't your fault :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
