Am 29.05.2016 um 22:15 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On 29/05/2016 19:54, Dale wrote: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 29/05/2016 11:28, Dale wrote: >>>> Håkon Alstadheim wrote: >>>>> Den 29. mai 2016 03:17, skrev Gregory Woodbury: >>>>>> WOW! >>>>>> >>>>>> Alan just wants to start it and walk away, as if Gentoo was a binary >>>>>> distribution >>>>>> that handles it all upstream. He doesn't want to take the time to >>>>>> review what >>>>>> emerge is proposing and see if changes are needed first. >>>>>> >>>>> It IS actually possible to do that, at least for non-critical systems. >>>>> Just make sure to mail yourself with the emerge output, so you can fix >>>>> things before the next automatic run. >>>>> >>>>> The point being that you don't have to sit and watch while emerge works. >>>>> You can have the output of any blocks or failures waiting for you in >>>>> your inbox at your convenience. >>>>> >>>>> For this to work in a timely fashion you need to stay on stable packages >>>>> as much as possible, and also keep other customizations to a minimum, >>>>> e.g. don't use --autounmask-write. >>>>> >>>> Thing is, that's not what Alan seems to want. Alan wants something like >>>> Ubuntu or something where you tell it to upgrade and then walk away >>>> without checking anything. >>> You are both wrong. What Alan Grimes really wants is an excuse (any >>> excuse) to whine, whinge and bitch about $STUFF. >>> >>> Notice how he never replies to any thread he starts? >>> >>> >> >> Well, he did reply. Either his script is still doing it or he did and >> he hasn't learned anything yet. >> >> It's funny how he is the only one that has these problems and how he >> keeps using that disaster of a script. I don't think anyone has posted >> a positive thing about that script. I'm no script guru by any means but >> even I can read that thing and see what a disaster it is. >> >> Best of luck to him. I'm about done trying to help. Key word, trying. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> > > I agree Dale. > > Mr Grimes should probably move over to Linux From Scratch. It has none > of portage's absurdities, makes no effort at all to be helpful to the > user and allows anyone to write any build automation they feel is > appropriate. LFS also requires you to watch all the compiler output all > the time to catch problems; it all seems to match Mr Grimes' > requirements right down to a tee. > > > I'm going to STFU down, go to bed and finish an astonishingly intriguing > Stephen King book and let the computer get on with doing whatever it > thinks perl-cleaner fixes. >
personally, I hope he stays around. His mails and the resulting threads amuse me.
