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

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

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.

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com