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 Dale :-) :-)
