From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge --update
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:39:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906301939.18180.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <445a8b100906300841g7620d576i9da042d1ff401d7b@mail.gmail.com>
On Tuesday 30 June 2009 17:41:35 Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote:
> I'm installing the split ebuild ( Very long operation.. x-/ ).
>
> Wouldn't be better to mask the kdebase monolithic ebuild, so that
> unexperienced gentoo
> linux users as I am would not spend useless hours installing it?
No. That's a bad idea. Stable users have been using monolithic ebuilds for
ages. You can't just take that away from them.
It's far preferable to let people like yourself suffer the consequences of not
reading documentation - split ebuilds have been available and documented since
at around 2006 IIRC
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-30 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-30 12:40 [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge --update Massimiliano Ziccardi
2009-06-30 12:51 ` AllenJB
2009-06-30 12:54 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-06-30 13:21 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-06-30 13:22 ` Alex Schuster
2009-06-30 15:41 ` Massimiliano Ziccardi
2009-06-30 17:39 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2009-06-30 21:17 ` Massimiliano Ziccardi
2009-07-01 7:12 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-07-02 11:05 ` Massimiliano Ziccardi
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