Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to be a penguin.

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

Am 29.05.2016 um 22:15 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> On 29/05/2016 19:54, Dale wrote:
>> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> On 29/05/2016 11:28, Dale wrote:
>>>> Håkon Alstadheim wrote:
>>>>> Den 29. mai 2016 03:17, skrev Gregory Woodbury:
>>>>>> WOW!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Alan just wants to start it and walk away, as if Gentoo was a binary
>>>>>> distribution
>>>>>> that handles it all upstream.  He doesn't want to take the time to
>>>>>> review what
>>>>>> emerge is proposing and see if changes are needed first.
>>>>>>
>>>>> It IS actually possible to do that, at least for non-critical systems.
>>>>> Just make sure to mail yourself with the emerge output, so you can fix
>>>>> things before the next automatic run.
>>>>>
>>>>> The point being that you don't have to sit and watch while emerge works.
>>>>> You can have the output of any blocks or failures waiting for you in
>>>>> your inbox at your convenience.
>>>>>
>>>>> For this to work in a timely fashion you need to stay on stable packages
>>>>> as much as possible, and also keep other customizations to a minimum,
>>>>> e.g. don't use --autounmask-write.
>>>>>
>>>> Thing is, that's not what Alan seems to want.  Alan wants something like
>>>> Ubuntu or something where you tell it to upgrade and then walk away
>>>> without checking anything.
>>> You are both wrong. What Alan Grimes really wants is an excuse (any
>>> excuse) to whine, whinge and bitch about $STUFF.
>>>
>>> Notice how he never replies to any thread he starts?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Well, he did reply.  Either his script is still doing it or he did and
>> he hasn't learned anything yet. 
>>
>> It's funny how he is the only one that has these problems and how he
>> keeps using that disaster of a script.  I don't think anyone has posted
>> a positive thing about that script.  I'm no script guru by any means but
>> even I can read that thing and see what a disaster it is. 
>>
>> Best of luck to him.  I'm about done trying to help.  Key word, trying.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-) 
>>
>
> I agree Dale.
>
> Mr Grimes should probably move over to Linux From Scratch. It has none
> of portage's absurdities, makes no effort at all to be helpful to the
> user and allows anyone to write any build automation they feel is
> appropriate. LFS also requires you to watch all the compiler output all
> the time to catch problems; it all seems to match Mr Grimes'
> requirements right down to a tee.
>
>
> I'm going to STFU down, go to bed and finish an astonishingly intriguing
> Stephen King book and let the computer get on with doing whatever it
> thinks perl-cleaner fixes.
>

personally, I hope he stays around. His mails and the resulting threads
amuse me.