Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:22:09 AM Alan Grimes wrote: >> Right now my system is completely unusable and will need fresh stage3 >> packages followed by an emerge emptytree to recover. But before I can do >> that, I need a sane profile and to know that the person who pushed out >> the changes to portage, obviously without any testing whatsoever, that >> broke my system so comprehensively is tortured, executed, butchered, and >> then cremated. > I think it's funny how you're so quick to blame your problem on others' > incompetence while at the same time begging for their help. Have you stopped > to think why it's just you having this problem? There no way to test for all > the crazy things users will do with any system, let alone one like Gentoo. Correct. Linux, all distributions, all versions is a complete nightmare. Unfortunately all other operating systems and distributions are far far worse. =( If people could just put Unix in the trash can where it belongs and focus on making systems simpler and more elegant then things could improve. =| Take the picture: A perfectly diabolical machine that is utterly foolproof. ;) -- IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. Powers are not rights.