From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please.
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 12:50:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <530A34F2.2020109@libertytrek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201402231742.44380.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
On 2014-02-23 12:42 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 23 Feb 2014 17:25:18 Tanstaafl wrote:
>> You do realize that blind bottom posting is far WORSE than blind
>> top-posting (done here intentionally to make a point), don't you?
>>
>> Please trim your posts.
> Sorry for this, I wasn't being lazy. I usually do trim my posts, except for
> cases where I think that the original post is still of value. Since my answer
> merely provided a work around with an uncertain outcome, I thought that I
> should leave in the OP's analysis in case some one more learned than I could
> chime in. This would also save the OP bumping his post in case it became lost
> in the thread.
My main point being, in a case like that, blind TOP-posting would be a
much better choice.
There actually are cases where blind top-posting is the best option.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-23 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-22 21:15 [gentoo-user] "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please Alan Mackenzie
2014-02-22 22:06 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-02-22 23:32 ` Mick
2014-02-23 12:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-02-23 17:25 ` Tanstaafl
2014-02-23 17:42 ` Mick
2014-02-23 17:50 ` Tanstaafl [this message]
2014-02-23 12:13 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-02-23 15:22 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-02-23 16:13 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-02-23 16:59 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-02-23 22:59 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-02-23 18:45 ` Kerem Gülver
2014-02-23 21:48 ` [gentoo-user] " Jonathan Callen
2014-02-23 0:32 ` [gentoo-user] " wabenbau
2014-02-23 11:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-03-21 13:53 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-03-21 13:50 ` Tom Wijsman
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