From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QZWPb-00081M-EZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:00:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B38071C082; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:58:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55F651C082 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:58:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9994380483 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:58:37 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:58:37 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE? Message-ID: <20110622235837.079e09c3@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4E023F8E.80304@darkmetatron.de> References: <2869451.8C6Z2vDv6d@nazgul> <1670223.3B9JZpE7Ee@nazgul> <20110622154440.0425dbe1@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <15413157.QhsxscBRlY@nazgul> <4E02223F.9090500@darkmetatron.de> <4E0232E3.1010704@gmail.com> <4E023F8E.80304@darkmetatron.de> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9cvs27 (GTK+ 2.24.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/jim7u9sRqMZz.iZbqB5UvL/"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 36794de8bfb71b3985ad36e6d786dffa --Sig_/jim7u9sRqMZz.iZbqB5UvL/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:16:30 +0200, Sebastian Be=DFler wrote: > This new behavior is bad, but not as bad as Windows. This is Gentoo > after all and not Ubuntu ;-P :-) In what way is it bad? Gentoo used to fail to install stuff because your USE flags were wrong and you had to go on a treasure hunt to find each one you needed to set, one at a time. Now it simply says "if you want this, set these use flags on those packages" and people still complain. Some people won't be happy until we go back to Grub style error messages, preferably in binary :( --=20 Neil Bothwick Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable --Sig_/jim7u9sRqMZz.iZbqB5UvL/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk4Cc50ACgkQum4al0N1GQOCBACgvnbK3j6sZzeND6jcY8XSlemh MxgAniVk5if0dLQn2B7l5UIDxZ3NWAdi =nwQ5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/jim7u9sRqMZz.iZbqB5UvL/--