From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B65313829C for ; Tue, 31 May 2016 05:31:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA9E7142B6; Tue, 31 May 2016 05:31:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gw2.antarean.org (gw2.antarean.org [141.105.125.208]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B6E821C01D for ; Tue, 31 May 2016 05:31:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw2.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84BB1122667 for ; Tue, 31 May 2016 05:30:45 +0000 () X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from gw2.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gw2.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id zNVa5TI5SPh8 for ; Tue, 31 May 2016 05:30:45 +0000 (%Z) Received: from data.antarean.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw2.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3AAF121754 for ; Tue, 31 May 2016 05:30:44 +0000 () Received: from andromeda.localnet (lan100.nl.antarean.org [10.20.13.200]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C545D4C for ; Tue, 31 May 2016 07:31:07 +0200 (CEST) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to be a penguin. Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 07:31:31 +0200 Message-ID: <2863073.zEQilyUvCh@andromeda> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.1.15-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.14.16; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <574CDF6E.5010609@verizon.net> References: <5749C1AE.5020905@verizon.net> <20160529221355.700d4194@digimed.co.uk> <574CDF6E.5010609@verizon.net> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: c0222004-35b6-49b4-99dd-f2521a6efab8 X-Archives-Hash: 42be3f1f8bd708b379b563feada2eea8 On Monday, May 30, 2016 08:48:46 PM Alan Grimes wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Have you read the emerge and portage man pages anytime in the last five > > years? > > I tried to extract useful information from the emerge manpage a few days > ago but it contained no useful information, manpages are written in > moonspeak anyway. Then I must be fluent in moonspeak without ever hearing about that language. I find the emerge manpage one of the better manpages around. > I thought portage was just the file database, it > seems to be working perfectly so therefore I have no motive to try to > get any more information about it. I tried to find an on-line wiki about > emerge because that's how shit is documented in the 21st century but > couldn't. I wish I could remember where I got the documentation I needed > to configure the features list I'm using, it's been ages since I've > messed with it... Occasionally there is a problem with a new feature. That gets fixed and everyone is happily using it. By disabling features you haven't got an understanding off and don't even bother to check if it's fixed, you are literally shooting yourself in the foot. Why not pick either of the 2 advices people have given you here and grow up. To make it easier, here are the 2 options: 1) Start using MS Windows as it's designed for people like you who refuse to learn new things 2) Actually learn how to use a computer -- Joost > > > ###### > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=1 --quiet-build=n --verbose" > > FEATURES="sandbox distlocks nostrip parallel-fetch userfetch userpriv > usersandbox splitdebug > -preserve-libs" > > ######