Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

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.   ;-)

-- 
Rgds
Peter.