Ben Kohler wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org > <mailto:ssuomi...@gentoo.org>> wrote: > > > Wrong. I'm always using the -t (--tree) flag with Portage and I > would > have seen upower being the culprit immediately, > and second command would have been `eix upower` to see available > versions, at which point I would have seen > upower-pm-utils, and figured it out. > > - Samuli > > I'm glad this fire has mostly been put out, but I think you are making > quite a leap here that normal users can "see upower-pm-utils, and > figure it out". You may be too close to this problem to understand > just how confusing it is to everyone else. > > No offense intended. > > -Ben
As a user, I have ran into blockers quite a few times. I either end up asking on -user or using the trial and error approach. A lot of the time, the trial and error approach fails and I still end up posting on -user or find where someone else beat me to it. It's rare with the output that portage gives that I can figure out why something is blocking. Generally this is just a issue of a different version of the same package being needed. Given that in this case it is a entirely different package that is needed to resolve it, I certainly would have been posting on -user. Unless portage spelled it out that I needed to use a different package all together, it would have never occurred to me. I might add, I been using Gentoo since 2003. I'm not a dev for sure and don't do scripting stuff so diggin in the ebuilds doesn't generally help me much either. Just a users point of view. Dale :-) :-)
