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 [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

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

2015-08-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
> * Fernando Rodriguez [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 patches/etc (just edit whate

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

2015-08-29 Thread Todd Goodman
* Fernando Rodriguez [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 patches/etc (just edit whatever

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

2015-08-28 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:23:26 -0500 schrieb 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 > > - git pull >

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 t

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

2015-08-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 1:40 PM, wrote: > Rich Freeman wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >> > 150828 Rich Freeman wrote: >> > >> >> git whatchanged /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses > /tmp/log.txt >> > >> > Tested as user : >> > >> > 690: ~> git whatchanged /usr/por

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

2015-08-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Mick wrote: > On Friday 28 Aug 2015 18:26:12 Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >> > 150828 Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> git whatchanged /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses > /tmp/log.txt >> > >> > Tested as user : >> > 690: ~> gi

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

2015-08-28 Thread covici
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:20 AM, 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

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 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

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

2015-08-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:20 AM, 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 mo

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 > - 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 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 - git pull - tig That's it. Tig is in dev-vcs/tig, BTW, and it's really handy. When I experimented with managin

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

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 pare

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 (GIT_DISCOVERY_

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

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

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

2015-08-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 9:19 AM, walt 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 all change lo

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

2015-08-28 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 28 Aug 2015 06:19:20 -0700 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

[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