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 488DD1392EF for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:27:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4DB70E09CC; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:27:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f45.google.com (mail-wg0-f45.google.com [74.125.82.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 30506E09A6 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:27:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f45.google.com with SMTP id x12so105858wgg.16 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:27:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=KF7qSfuuRxOy4yga6w7dG3NMQcNQGVRm9ZeHSJqNqpU=; b=qxPUUmsOdN8OkuNhoy+RheeKqv5s1XOmefhn/9xDnNRFTXE9anw9QZ7fWDY6+1cygz jNdF00MCaPm0y8Mg9RiaW4Fp/TcFpKwS/LKH3/zUxjP3OrETSlpLWGPczMi/HpbE+kDu LKyqkHwPHYAoqJY8X2BJFlfTTEvonPVGVZJ9ShYmbQaHeDicpu1F4aGVZcoSRUu7AF36 ATQfC9NbVJJw047EzabxEsqhQ0XzXW83w9BdN4+CsolkbFcu8QMSO9gJVVPnGiywC5+s L9b8v0VZT5/7lUjCFtAsGSwmKbQR3ADYnQNh2K6j+pvrloVcU1k3UxLOK9Hf99a0e+3Q 3VDA== X-Received: by 10.180.8.10 with SMTP id n10mr22167641wia.41.1405024046890; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:27:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (105-237-170-243.access.mtnbusiness.co.za. [105.237.170.243]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ja9sm35609338wic.8.2014.07.10.13.27.25 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:27:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53BEF6FB.3000408@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 22:26:35 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] media-gfx/blender-2.71 dependencies References: <20140709051404.GA3308@macro.home.gateway> <20140709075452.GA4250@macro> <53BD404B.2080000@gmail.com> <20140710031139.GA3173@macro> <53BEB1E7.5000406@gmail.com> <20140710181143.GA3729@macro> <53BEE147.2020107@gmail.com> <53BEECC1.8050803@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53BEECC1.8050803@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: fe2e424d-99c3-4e68-b43a-ddda7b7366e1 X-Archives-Hash: fc512722aa4de42fc4725f4ab2f7f857 On 10/07/2014 21:42, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 10/07/2014 20:11, List Reader wrote: >>> Okay, I see. Thank you so much. Soo so much. I thought I was going round >>> the twist, or hopelesly ignorant. I couln't understand why emerge didn't offer me >>> --autounmask-write, so I could dispatch-conf and move on. I was having >>> similar problems with media-gfx/freecad and some others, but eselecting the >>> apropriate target/slot thing made it go. Okay, that's it for today. My >>> eys hurt. I'll do it in the morning. you guys are great. I'm going to bed. >> >> Stick with it, it gets easier. Portage *does* have it's special way of >> looking at the world, but after a while it starts to make some kind of >> sense. It just doesn't happen quickly, you have to persist with the damn >> thing :-) >> >> > > > After a little over 10 years, I'm still trying to get portage. Just > when I start to make sense of something, they change the thing. I > wonder if they do it just to pick on me. "Let's make the error spit out > backwards just to screw with Dale." Yep. I bet that's it. ROFL You're /almost/ right Actually, some clever dev wrote a script that polls this list, and every 23 times Dale uses the word "thingie" it makes a semi-random change to the portage code. Each init-thingie counts as three regular thingies. The changes are semi-random not fully properly random because the changes are crafted to mess with Dale's head. So now you know. It's not you and it isn't your fault :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com