Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 23/03/2015 11:55, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday 22 March 2015 23:22:33 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 
>> This is one of the things that is starting to real get on my damn tits
>> about portage, for about 2 years now. It's not an easy problem to solve,
>> and to be honest, portage is not helping at all. You have two options in
>> running it: don't use -v and get very little info, or use -v and get a
>> terminal dump of the entire graph tree with lots of stuff and zero real
>> information about how to solve it. Look at my thread with Dale just the
>> other day, I managed to help him with the correct answer because I had a
>> magic brainwave to search for the "<" character.
>>
>> Seriously, what kind of process would ever use that as a problem solving
>> approach?
>>
>> In your case, the solution is in the ebuild for acpupsd and it's
>> specific DEPENDs. Now, I'm generally OK with looking in ebuilds for real
>> answers and have gotten used to it, but ffs I should not have to do
>> that. Well-written software should provide that information in it's
>> output, and it shouldn't be hard to get the software to do it.
>>
>> Ok, rant over.
> 
> Sounds like you're volunteering, Alan.   ;-)


I do have some of the required skills, and I have free time right now.

Maybe I'll have a deeper look into portage's code with a view to
improving this area. No promises thought :-)



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Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com