On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 09:03:30 AM Alan Grimes wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> =kde-base/baloo-1.0 > > > > Then you haven't done much manual reading in the last ten years. > > It's not like it's holy scripture that I just read periodically just 'cuz.
If at first you fail, you consult the manual. If you don't, you will keep failing miserably and will never learn anything. > >> or something, which I think it had to be at one point in time. or > >> something to target the kde4 version and not the kde 5 version, or some > >> other ninjitsu. > > > > If you had read the error message properly, you would see that is not > > necessary as the two conflicting version of baloo are in different > > categories. Perhaps you should put down your rant-pen for a few minutes > > and spend the time on something constructive, like reading the Gentoo > > handbook or man pages. > > Manpages are universally written in moonspeak, reading them is entirely > nonproductive. Some require a basic minimum knowledge-level of what you are trying to do. Quite a few are actually quite well written. The handbook is a different matter completely. That is quite comprehensive and written in plain english. Have you bothered checking that? -- Joost
