Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
* Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com [150829 12:59]: On Friday, August 28, 2015 2:24:37 PM Rich Freeman wrote: Those who wish to use git can do so, and I'd encourage people to try. It really does have a lot of advantages. Oh, and it makes it really easy to contribute

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-30 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Monday, August 31, 2015 12:50:04 AM Thomas Mueller wrote: * Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com [150829 12:59]: On Friday, August 28, 2015 2:24:37 PM Rich Freeman wrote: Those who wish to use git can do so, and I'd encourage people to try. It really does have a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-29 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Friday, August 28, 2015 2:24:37 PM Rich Freeman wrote: Those who wish to use git can do so, and I'd encourage people to try. It really does have a lot of advantages. Oh, and it makes it really easy to contribute patches/etc (just edit whatever you want in /usr/portage and type git diff).

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-29 Thread Todd Goodman
* Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com [150829 12:59]: On Friday, August 28, 2015 2:24:37 PM Rich Freeman wrote: Those who wish to use git can do so, and I'd encourage people to try. It really does have a lot of advantages. Oh, and it makes it really easy to contribute

[gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-28 Thread walt
I avoided yesterday's downgrade from ncurses-6.0 to ncurses-5.9-r4 because it was obviously(?) a mistake. This morning I just upgraded(?) ncurses-6.0 to ncurses-6.0-r1 and immediately after doing that, portage wants to downgrade(?) from 6.0-r1 back to 6.0. This comedy of errors would be funny if

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-28 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 28 Aug 2015 06:19:20 -0700 schrieb walt w41...@gmail.com: I avoided yesterday's downgrade from ncurses-6.0 to ncurses-5.9-r4 because it was obviously(?) a mistake. This morning I just upgraded(?) ncurses-6.0 to ncurses-6.0-r1 and immediately after doing that, portage wants to

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 9:19 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Note that /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses/Changelog was last updated on April 6, several months ago. Rhetorical question: what is the purpose of a Changelog? Gentoo is no longer maintaining the old Changelog files. The source of

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-28 Thread Dale
Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:20:34AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: 150828 Rich Freeman wrote: git whatchanged /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses /tmp/log.txt Tested as user : 690: ~ git whatchanged /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses tmp/log.txt fatal: Not a git repository (or

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-28 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:20:34AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: 150828 Rich Freeman wrote: git whatchanged /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses /tmp/log.txt Tested as user : 690: ~ git whatchanged /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses tmp/log.txt fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-28 Thread Emanuele Rusconi
For anybody who thinks git is hard, I'll just leave here my own thoughts on the matter. As a user - not specifically a Gentoo user - I only need to know 3 commands: - git clone URI - git pull - tig That's it. Tig is in dev-vcs/tig, BTW, and it's really handy. When I experimented with

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: You can try the gitweb interface, for example like this: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/log/?qt=grepq=ncurses. A better view might be: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/log/sys-libs/ncurses or if you prefer:

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-28 Thread Philip Webb
150828 Rich Freeman wrote: git whatchanged /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses /tmp/log.txt Tested as user : 690: ~ git whatchanged /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses tmp/log.txt fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /home) Stopping at filesystem boundary

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-28 Thread Dale
Emanuele Rusconi wrote: For anybody who thinks git is hard, I'll just leave here my own thoughts on the matter. As a user - not specifically a Gentoo user - I only need to know 3 commands: - git clone URI - git pull - tig That's it. Tig is in dev-vcs/tig, BTW, and it's really

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 150828 Rich Freeman wrote: git whatchanged /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses /tmp/log.txt Tested as user : 690: ~ git whatchanged /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses tmp/log.txt fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-28 Thread Mick
On Friday 28 Aug 2015 18:26:12 Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 150828 Rich Freeman wrote: git whatchanged /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses /tmp/log.txt Tested as user : 690: ~ git whatchanged /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-28 Thread covici
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 150828 Rich Freeman wrote: git whatchanged /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses /tmp/log.txt Tested as user : 690: ~ git whatchanged /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses tmp/log.txt

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 28 Aug 2015 18:26:12 Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 150828 Rich Freeman wrote: git whatchanged /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses /tmp/log.txt

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 1:40 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 150828 Rich Freeman wrote: git whatchanged /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses /tmp/log.txt Tested as user :

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-28 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:23:26 -0500 schrieb Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: Emanuele Rusconi wrote: For anybody who thinks git is hard, I'll just leave here my own thoughts on the matter. As a user - not specifically a Gentoo user - I only need to know 3 commands: - git clone URI -

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 28.08.2015 um 15:19 schrieb walt: I avoided yesterday's downgrade from ncurses-6.0 to ncurses-5.9-r4 because it was obviously(?) a mistake. This morning I just upgraded(?) ncurses-6.0 to ncurses-6.0-r1 and immediately after doing that, portage wants to downgrade(?) from 6.0-r1 back to