d
> it went smooth as silk as long as I didn't have /boot on newer ZFS
> setup. Even ZFS would work if you setup /boot to be a separate dataset
> and make it with absolute minimal options.
>
> On 12/12/2020 1:31 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 07:48
ther than trying to deal with the overcomplexity of GRUB
for an EFI system.
I normally use systemd-boot but when I have used refind, it has picked up
everything it needs to know without a config file. What errors are you
seeing?
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ht about by bzr, which is no longer in portage. Unless you have
it installed from an overlay for a particular need of yours, you should
let it be depcleaned.
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second sides being scanned in
reverse order if you use an ADF. You could script that, but when someone
has already done it, laziness... I mean efficiency, wins.
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you are talking about.
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df has lots of nice features, I used to use it with an ADF and it
would scan all the sheets, then I'd turn the stack over and feed it back
in and it would scan the other sides and then put all the pages in the
correct order.
I have a duplex scanner now, but that was a real time saver.
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the boot partition of the SD
card on your computer and create a file called ssh. Then Raspbian will
boot with SSH enabled.
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st try it but I wouldn't hold my breath or anything.
-j1 fixing the problem is just the occasional side benefit, the main
reason for doing it is to produce more readable error output.
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a
bug. Even if the build still fails, it is much easier to see the symptoms
of the problem when it is not all mixed in with the output from successful
operations.
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d
file for later updating.
> And I do it as a matter of course, because it can't
> do any harm ... :-)
Of course, because t doesn't do anything :)
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uninstlling stuff until
> emerge is willing to do the update. You sometimes learn the hard why
> which packages you absolutely can't remove to try to make emerge
> happy. For example, removing dev-lang/python is a bad idea.
On the plus side, you won't see any more slot collision mes
I always assumed that this is the case for all operations as
> it would make sense.
I was thinking particularly of the dependency calculations. That's why I
prefer to use portage's own dependency calculations, i.e. emerge -c.
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lled packages.
But does it take into account the USE flags with which those packages
were installed? That used to not be the case, but I haven't used equery
for a long time, for just that reason.
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d even wants to install a _new_ package -- and build it for
> Python 3.7:
emerge -cpv python:3.7 will show you what is keeping 3.7.
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can do it from the command line with media-libs/exiftool. Dolphin
only shows the values here, I wonder if there might be a plugin for
editing.
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he s-word :)
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t into this list somehow?
depclean will never remove anything in your world file - unless you
specify the package on the command line, but we are looking at the global
usage of depclean here. Just thought I'd mention that as there are other
pedants on this list :)
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list of unread news on each computer and then mark them all as read.
> The config files I
> do by hand. They're actually up-to-date. I probably shouldn't let it
> create those ._cfg* files, but I do for safe-keeping.
It's generally easier to use a config update manager like dispatch-conf or
co
on, you should let it go.
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(Albert Einstein)
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a
separate file in package.use, but the conflicts were gone.
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On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 07:35:20 -0600, Dale wrote:
> Dare I mention hal??
Please don't :-(
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. I can't imagine him switching
to anything else.
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first sector from an LVM volume instead of a physical
> partition?
I think the only way to find out is to try it, but my gut feeling about
this is not good. However, I'd be happy for my gut to be proved wrong.
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He who play in root, eventually kill tree!
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won't bother grub at all. Even rm'ing the files and directory might
> not cause problems until the disk blocks of interest get reused by new
> files.
Good point. I'm so glad I rarely have to use GRUB these days.
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ally small. It's easy to reboot and not
realise you have a flash drive connected, which could possibly mess up
your drive naming.
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about the time I rebuilt my last kernel, or somewhere close to that
> anyway. Sort of confusing.
>
> Just wondering if leaving that alone may be best. ;-)
Rename one of the directories and see if you can still boot :)
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sed first?
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hurt.
GRUB2 uses /boot/grub here, I suspect /boot/grub2 might be the surplus
one, but check the timestamps.
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n definition, GRUB requires the boot sector/MBR
of a whole drive.
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department.
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.
Changing the syntax between versions could mean an update rendering the
computer unbootable, which we would probably have heard about.
I'm not sure chainloading would work as that requires a drive definition
from which to load the boot sector.
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n to put / on LVM too. I used to use a
separate /usr but found no real benefit so I now leave it as part of /.
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ce to change the filename.
> I have to 'xkill' it
I suspect this is a problem with the file dialog rather than the browser.
FWIW it worked fine with Chromium on KDE here.
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t can pivot root onto the proper root filesystem.
That was my thinking, that the kernel/initramfs was reading the LVs but
Grant mentioned the lvm module for GRUB so I broke the habit of a
lifetime and read the man page :-O
"GRUB 2 can read files directly from LVM and RAID devices."
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be it is OK now, although a quick web search before I posted
implied it wasn't. RTFM time?
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After all is said and done let there not be more said than done.
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s
long as the environment is secure.
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we created them." (Albert Einstein)
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On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 19:04:20 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> In grub, does chainloading an LVM virtual partition work the same as
> chainloading a "real" partition?
I suspect not as GRUB will be reading the menu files and GRUB doesn't
read from LVM volumes.
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needed whichever distro
is used.
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t's tiresome and expensive.
But actual partitions? Without some sort of volume management? I have 27
btrfs subvolumes on one system, but I wouldn't want to do that with
partitions. And you don't find yourself wishing for more with a volume
manager, just create whatever you need... which is how I rea
I've no need to fix it.
But you can fix it in your own time, waiting until it breaks is never
convenient.
> Can you imagine an fstab with 22 partitions specified with UUIDs?
> Doesn't bear thinking about.
Can you imagine an fstab with 22 partitions? Doesn't bear thinking about.
;-)
lag, yes. I don't think that is enabled by
> default.
The --partial flag applies to individual files, so it may help if the
copy fails partway through copying a very large file, it's more useful
when used with networked drives.
Rsync will carry on where it left of as far as fully copied file
ing to do), then there's no
> problem of uuids - that's at the MBR GPT level.
PARTUUIDs are are the GPT level, UUIDs are filesystem metadata.
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then mount both and copy everything over with rsync. That was
you won't get any conflicting UUIDs and you can set filesystem or
partition labels as you see fit.
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Hot glass looks exactly the same as cold glass.
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> I think the easiest way would be to re-install the Getnoo from scratch
And if it still doesn't work because of a firmware issue, you still have
a non-booting system but with no OS installed either. It's better to try
and diagnose the problem rather than throwing everything away in th
s is to create your own script that partitions the disks,
> formats them, mounts them, then proceeds to copy custom files across.
ISTR someone was working on an Ansible playbook to automate installation.
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baskets can help. That said,
> if it will work best for your needs or circumstances or both, then it is
> what it is.
Agreed, it also helps with backing up you are likely to have different
requirements for backing up the OS, which is replaceable, and your data,
which isn't.
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Fi
ting in UEFI is thankfully not a necessity. Legacy BIOS
> works just as nice to be able to install and run Gentoo. I still run 3
> legacy BIOS systems here. :-)
In my experience, UEFI systems use UEFI boot by default. The problem with
installing Linux on them is usually the need to disab
already done.
There are already the 2to3 scripts for converting Python2 scripts to work
with Python3. The main issue with migrating is if you are using a library
that hasn't be ported to Python3.
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On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 15:25:28 +0100, n952162 wrote:
> "Python 2.7 will not be maintained past 2020
> <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/>."
>
> There are no unmaintained packages in gentoo?
A few, such as Python 2.7.
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"What I need is a
On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 18:59:24 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Thanks for the decode, I hope I'll get better at understanding this kind
> of error output in future.
You will, it takes a while to learn to speak portagese :)
> On Fri, 13 Nov 2020, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> > Date
selinux)
> -sep-usr -syslog" ABI_X86="(64)"
>
> The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied:
> pam? ( !static )
It means that if you have the pam USE flag set, the static flag must be
unset. You can have one or the other, or neither, but not both.
ction?
Look at the ELOG settings in /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example.
There are plenty of options about what gets saved and where it is sent.
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t and its dependencies to
the latest suitable version.
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ly depend on the version you want to use.
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;> On Nov 7, 2020, at 4:31 AM, Jude DaShiell
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> What does it enable and what does it disable?
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> --
> > >>> United States has 633 Billionaires with only 10 doing any annual
> > >>> significant giving.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > > --
> > > United States has 633 Billionaires with only 10 doing any annual
> > > significant giving.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
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> wrote:
> > >
> > > What does it enable and what does it disable?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > United States has 633 Billionaires with only 10 doing any annual
> > > significant giving.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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On Fri, 06 Nov 2020 11:00:07 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> I see from theconversation.com today that gentoo
> penguins have been found to consist of four species.
Presumably using different profiles?
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tems.
> What can I do to clear this error?
This has been the case for a while, just do what it says and add --user
to the command.
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le). Exiting.
Is this the cause?
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ze Code Name
120484095 1024.0 KiB EF02 BIOS boot partition
24096 2101247 1024.0 MiB 8300 boot0
3 2101248 5852145663 2.7 TiB BF01 sundiver0
4 5852145664 5860533134 4.0 GiB 8200 swap0
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older motherboard. If the system does support UEFI, are you
> sure it is set in the BIOS?
You also need to have booted the live CD in UEFI mode for the variables to
be present.
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> Tensorflow and all packages which it depends on have python3_9 in
> PYTHON_TARGETS.
Have you changed PYTHON_COMPAT in your local ebuild?
Have you confirmed that tensorflow works with Python 3.9?
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On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 20:48:04 +0100, antlists wrote:
> On 14/10/2020 20:22, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > Alternatively, for more instant updates, you could look at
> > net-p2p/syncthing.
>
> Not sure what you use for it, but there are mirrored filesystems that
>
y, for more instant updates, you could look at
net-p2p/syncthing.
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eat.
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framework using data flow graphs for
scalable machine learning
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Windows Error #02: Multitasking attempted. System confused.
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y additional ethernet
> drivers in the new kernel are defaulted to enabled.
Are you sure of that? Or is it just that the submenus containing those new
drivers are enabled? I'm sure that's how it's always worked for me.
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dels
still have to be selected. But it is annoying when configuring a new
version of a working kernel.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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t seems to have fixed it.
Oddly though, I don't have promptinit and all works for me.
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Being politically correct means always having to say you're sorry.
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mething like this:
> I am on zsh 5.8. Not sure what this output means.
You haven't posted any output, but it still works for me:
% emerge -1 \=sys-apps/systemd-
systemd-245.7-r1 systemd-246-r1 systemd- systemd-readahead-216
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DOS never says "EXCELLENT
On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 19:37:49 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> Ugh, I really need to get my eyes checked. You're right of course...
There's no "of course" about it ;-)
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t;-~amd64" not "~amd64", removing the ~amd64 setting
that is used as default.
The latest kernel I have installed is 5.4.66, which is the latest:
% qlist -ICv gentoo-sources
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.4.66
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.4.60
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--info is
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
when it should be
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
However, it is not as simple as editing make.conf, changing the CHOST of
an installation is not supported, the setting is usually derived from the
stage3 you started with.
Backup settings and hom
y to
avoid excessive reboots and partly because some systems use ZFS.
% cat /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/kernel
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources -~amd64
sys-kernel/linux-headers -~amd64
Works for me.
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(A)bort, (R)etry, (P)retend this never happened...
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able have a number next to
them. Press that to jump to the option.
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How do i find the model of my card?
your nick is misleading, seriously
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no way out of this?
It's a dependency of krfb with USE=wayland
wayland? ( sys-apps/xdg-desktop-portal[screencast] )
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seful.
I run ~arch here, but not for the kernel as it involves too many reboots.
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5.4.66 is the latest in stable.
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Windows Error #09: Mouse not found. Press mouse button to continue.
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app-accessibility which I turned on. Is speakup.synth=soft stored in
> the runtime driver for espeak now?
Press / in menuconf to search for options. This also shows options that
are currently unavailable, and what you need to enable to get at them.
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PC DOS Error #01: Windo
s using last time I read about
> that.
that's probably changed, Linus seems to change his opinions about such
things as often as he changes his underwear. Just use what you like, he
will both agree and disagree with you at least once in the next year :)
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PENTIUM: Produces Er
On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 14:13:05 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2020-10-09, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> > I'd say you're better off using a UEFI boot manager. If you use
> > systemd, add the boot USE flag to get its boot manager, formerly
> > gummiboot. If you don't use
rmerly gummiboot. If you
don't use systemd you can install the boot manager on its own as
systemd-boot. Or try rEFInd. All are in portage and easy to set up in a
way that is shocking to anyone used to GRUB.
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pgp0VH4N
On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 20:00:29 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> One interesting thing that happened is when I tried doing emerge
> --depclean I was told I have no @world file.
Once again, please post the exact command you used and the actual output.
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All generalizations are
+ WiFi, with more configuration options.
And the facility for Virgin to access and administer them remotely.
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so
it behaves similarly to your device, and plugged it into the router. It
gives a setup like you want, except I chose to use DHCP for simplicity of
administration.
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On Sun, 4 Oct 2020 18:30:08 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Oct 2020 13:03:39 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> > I decided to get a low-end cable-internet account as backup. 10/1 is
> > easily sufficient for 1080p Youtube or 720p Netflix (the max for
> > Google Chr
another.
Or you could run your own local DHCP server, such as dsnmasq, which
gives you full control however you are connected.I used to run dnsmasq on
my server but this year switched to running Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi. It
provides DNS, DHCP (through dnsmasq) and ad blocking all in one place.
ke it as well, I
> doubt it has zfs, but thanks for the thought.
> I will see if the ubuntu live has what I need.
It's based on Ubuntu so it may still have zfs.
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or
> > what to fix.
>
> Isn't that how automated installers are supposed to work?
>
> ;)
Only after they've reformatted your disk :(
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On Fri, 02 Oct 2020 11:25:54 -0300, David M. Fellows wrote:
> Assuming the above is an accurate transcription of the command you used.
>
> -update is definitely NOT the same as --update.
>
> -update is equivalent to -u -p -d -a -t -e
Nice catch :-)
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visually
impaired users, with plenty of options for screen reading and
magnification.
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said, the email you replied to (which wasn't from the poster) had
> language more suggestive of some kind of installer.
My bad, I meant Gentoo installation disc, not installer disc. The
auto-completion in my wetware is not what it used to be :(
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rg/wiki//etc/portage/package.env). However, I
> didn't find a way to set additional environment variables.
You can set these in package.env, see
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.env
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dr
n its own
and will give you plenty of feedback if something isn't quite right, -v
just buries the important information in noise.
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Time is an illusion but never so much as when you're using a modem.
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en't used the Gentoo installer discs for years, but you should be
able to create your own mount points.
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If you give a man a fish, he's fed for a day.
If you teach a man to fish, he'll buy a silly hat.
If you talk about fish to a starving man, you're a consultant.
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De
ou" where you can only
see it after you have read the email :-O
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Disinformation is not as good as datinformation.
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ut those out and apply the rest of the ebuilds,
> can't determine what is pulling in wxpython.
Add --tree to your emerge options.
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If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four
tellers?
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. I might as well get it over and done with now...
>
> Yes, just tested. "-uD" -> just updates. "-NuD" -> updates +
> 290 odd rebuilds.
>
-u is not the same as -U.
The advice was to use -U instead of -N. Both look for USE flag changes,
but -U only rebu
t;
Of course it is, I was considering that not everyone uses --ask, or
--pretend.
> Defaulting to package 1, of course.
Which is what those people would get, as they do now.
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Neil Bothwick
If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat?
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That's the sort of thing I was thinking of. It could cause issues for
those that run emerge without checking what it is going to do, but they
are going to hit problems sometime anyway so they may as well learn their
lesson sooner ;-)
Hmm, I hadn't realised there were so many virtuals, I just looke
er-bin USE flag.
Alternatively, have portage spit out a warning if a virtual is required
and none of its alternatives are installed, but that would spoil running
portage non-interactively.
Another option would be for each virtual have have a set of USE flags
corresponding to its choices, but that could get
ll always favour rust over rust-bin if both or neither is
installed.
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Neil Bothwick
"I am a Cub Ranger. We dib dib dib for the One. We dob dob dob for the
One."
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won't. it's not an upgrade, they are two different packages that
satisfy the dependency. In the same way that a package that depends on
virtual/mta won't try to install sendmail if you have postfix installed.
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