I'm now running my update script daily (on a SSD...)
KDE is still profoundly broken.
Steam still doesn't work. -- might be fixed by a reboot but can't reboot
due to dependence on kde packages...
Today I get
[ebuild R ] dev-lang/spidermonkey-52.9.1_pre1:52::gentoo
USE="custom-cflags system-icu -custom-optimization -debug -minimal
{-test} (-jit%*)" 0 KiB
I can't read the syntax there up around jit, clearly it is disabled for
some platform reason even though it is enabled in make.conf and even,
for some packages, in profile...
OK.
Then it barfs. (unsurprisingly)
The vomit reads like the developer turned on warnings for many things he
wanted to pretend to want to fix but never fixed them...
Anyway, It gets all the way to the install phase and it dies because:
* ERROR: dev-lang/spidermonkey-52.9.1_pre1::gentoo failed (install phase):
* USE Flag 'jit' not in IUSE for dev-lang/spidermonkey-52.9.1_pre1
and I'm like FU, asshole. The flag is enabled, you disabled it, -- just
run in interpreted mode for chrissake!
And then we get to the perennial fails, fails that have been broken FOR
YEARS, and are breaking really super important stuff like Xine, the best
media player for Linux...
├── dev-libs
│ ├── libcdio-2.0.0-r1
│ └── libcdio-paranoia-0.94_p2
├── media-sound
│ └── playmidi-2.5-r2
What?!?!?! I'm not allowed to play midi files on linux anymore either? =(
I really want to like the recent package cleanups, I really do, but
seriously, the distribution is severely broken right now. I mean keyword
[platform] is much too conservative to be usable... But then keyword
~[platform] should be Stable Enough -- as it has been for over a
decade... Can we please stop breaking stuff until these things are
working again???
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