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From: Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@verizon.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 21:27:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5529CA0B.9060102@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4217540.FKfgBIrGlZ@wstn>

Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday 11 April 2015 10:22:09 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.
> Why don't you just start again from scratch, following the official docs? You 
> don't need to override every little setting; portage knows best, just like 
> your Ma. Use the force...

Well, emptytree world seems to be working so far, the official diagnosis
is a long-forgotten hack of a work-around to a problem that I must have
been dealing with more than two years ago.


-- 
IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel.

Powers are not rights.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-12  1:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-11 14:22 [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed! Alan Grimes
2015-04-11 14:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-11 17:22   ` Mick
2015-04-11 19:41   ` Alan Grimes
2015-04-11 21:27     ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-11 20:04 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2015-04-12  0:42   ` Alan Grimes
2015-04-12  0:58     ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2015-04-12  1:02     ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Humphrey
2015-04-12  1:58     ` Dale
2015-04-12  9:12     ` J. Roeleveld
2015-04-12 17:23       ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2015-04-12 18:35         ` Matti Nykyri
2015-04-13  1:07           ` »Q«
2015-04-13  5:48             ` Alan McKinnon
2015-04-14  2:08               ` »Q«
2015-04-12 20:07         ` J. Roeleveld
2015-04-13  1:15           ` »Q«
2015-04-13  1:24             ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2015-04-13  1:38               ` »Q«
2015-04-13  1:52                 ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2015-04-14  1:55                   ` »Q«
2015-04-13  5:52                 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-04-14  3:38                   ` »Q«
2015-04-13  7:51                 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-14  3:51                   ` »Q«
2015-04-14  7:47                     ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-15  3:09                       ` »Q«
2015-04-15  8:24                         ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-12  9:31     ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2015-04-12 14:13     ` Andreas K. Huettel
2015-04-11 23:23 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-04-12  1:25   ` Alan Grimes
2015-04-12  0:06 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-04-12  1:27   ` Alan Grimes [this message]
2015-04-12 14:52     ` Peter Humphrey
2015-04-16  2:40 ` Fernando Rodriguez

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