150427 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 27/04/2015 00:23, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> I'm not saying it can't be done, but it's deceptively hard >> to automatically come up with a list of non-ridiculous suggestions >> before the user in question dies of old age : https://xkcd.com/1425/ .
That expresses the extremes well enough, but one would hope that the Portage output problem lies between them. > I'm aware of the scope of the problem, and I'm not asking Portage > to infer what I might want or suggest solutions I didn't ask for. > Besides, "what I want" is already unambiguously defined by world > and the contents of /etc/portage/. > I'd be much happier if portage took the information *it already has* > and formatted its output a tad more parseable to human brains. > Right now what it's doing is the equivalent of a core dump > with "ah, fuck it, I give up. Here, you figure this shit out". This expresses Gentoo users' difficulties all too well (smile). What we are asking is for the devs to accept there is a problem, have a proper look at it & try to make Portage output more understandable. We are always grateful for their volunteer efforts. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
