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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge world looking grim
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On 24/08/2015 15:35, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> 
>> I'd recommend you then just to reinstall.  Remembering my fights with
>> stupid error messages from emerge, and so on, I wish I'd just
>> reinstalled months earlier than I did.
> 
> Thanks for the frank suggestions and noted lack unix hero
> talk... hehe.

The other Alan Mac chipping in :-)

I know how you feel, I get it too when confronted with Python Web
frameworks. Very confusing stuff to this old brain.

I understand portage's magic, it makes sense to me and I can see through
the spell.
I don't understand web framework magic and can't see through the spell.

<sigh>


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com