On Saturday 16 Apr 2016 11:10:45 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 16/04/2016 05:36, Alan Grimes wrote: > > Emerge won't update a single goddammned package on my system. > > > > > > My number theory code finished a segment of work, (after a month), and > > it's time to reboot the system to propagate updates to nvidia drivers > > and such, uptime = 81 days. > > > > I thought the hell emerge put me through last time would cover me for > > the next six months... =( > > > > > > Emerge seems to want to pretend it is possible to update packages > > without breaking anything. It's not. That's why there's revdep-rebuild. > > It is causing much much much more grief by refusing to do it's goddamned > > motherfucking job than it would be by giving revdep-rebulid a chance to > > do it's job. > > Hello Mr Grimes, > > I see you still have trouble dealing with your rage issues. > > I recommend you seek professional help about that.
Nah! Let the man vent. Gentoo is a particularly effective (meta)distro for this purpose too. It will invariably do *exactly* what you instruct it, although this comes with no guarantee this will be what wanted it to do. It forces you to learn through practice. ;-) -- Regards, Mick
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