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[98.95.147.33]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id q44sm5322576yhg.15.2014.06.04.13.19.50 for <multiple recipients> (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 04 Jun 2014 13:19:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <538F7F65.9000208@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 15:19:49 -0500 From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 SeaMonkey/2.25 Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: news item for upower References: <538DED0F.8010709@gentoo.org> <1401812396.19408.4.camel@oswin.hackershack.net> <20140603185813.18588.qmail@stuge.se> <538E26F6.2000801@gentoo.org> <538E2EEB.1080309@gmail.com> <CAGfcS_=gRarLoFg9iChi6AyOom6i4LnCQ9xeXbCaKV-XLujRTw@mail.gmail.com> <pan$6076$dfd4ff62$d6e8cc50$47b40c47@cox.net> <538F4828.3070701@gentoo.org> <CANSUr=KZfXpPZnzn8zNZO_x+1=jKSQoWyTGnwibR5N7pjGEN_w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CANSUr=KZfXpPZnzn8zNZO_x+1=jKSQoWyTGnwibR5N7pjGEN_w@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------030100040202060700040700" X-Archives-Salt: d092d2f2-d999-4261-915a-6431c0e46d9e X-Archives-Hash: 65604a12dd27522a67867c60166f5953 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------030100040202060700040700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ben Kohler wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org > <mailto:ssuominen@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 :-) :-) --------------030100040202060700040700 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Ben Kohler wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:CANSUr=KZfXpPZnzn8zNZO_x+1=jKSQoWyTGnwibR5N7pjGEN_w@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Samuli Suominen <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ssuominen@gentoo.org" target="_blank">ssuominen@gentoo.org</a>></span> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class=""> <br> </div> Wrong. I'm always using the -t (--tree) flag with Portage and I would<br> have seen upower being the culprit immediately,<br> and second command would have been `eix upower` to see available<br> versions, at which point I would have seen<br> upower-pm-utils, and figured it out.<br> <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br> - Samuli<br> <br> </font></span></blockquote> </div> 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. </div> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> </div> <div class="gmail_extra">No offense intended.</div> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> </div> <div class="gmail_extra">-Ben</div> </div> </blockquote> <br> 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. <br> <br> 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. <br> <br> 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. <br> <br> Just a users point of view. <br> <br> Dale<br> <br> :-) :-) <br> <br> </body> </html> --------------030100040202060700040700--