On 26/01/2014 20:04, hasufell wrote: > So, not sure where your optimism comes from.
It comes from watching what happens at the end of running emerge, don't read any more into it than that. Especially not optimism, I think you might be projecting your own frustrations. A couple of years ago I used to have to manually resolve blockers about one world update in two. It started becoming a huge PITA especially as the deps are usually easy to solve - if I can look at the screen for a few seconds and figure it out, then software can do the same in milliseconds. Recent portages now do this properly when viewed from a results-only perspective. On my machines, that is what I see happening. That is the ONLY set of FACTS I have to work on; you may have more. I'm willing to give up 4 minutes while emerge runs so I don't have to spend many more minutes right afterwards doing manually the very shit that software is very good at. Whether portage is a complete pile of dogshit software or not is beside the point. Even if it is, my 4 minutes still buys me lots <shrug> -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
