Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: You currently cannot smoothly upgrade a 4 months old Gentoo system

2021-11-05 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mi., 3. Nov. 2021 um 23:15 Uhr schrieb Joshua Kinard : > > On 11/3/2021 11:03, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > it is currently not possible to smoothly run a world upgrade on a 4 > > months old system which doesn't even have a complicated package list: > > [snip] > > > This is not abou

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: You currently cannot smoothly upgrade a 4 months old Gentoo system

2021-11-04 Thread Philip Webb
211104 Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> Portage error msgs are difficult to read & often simply unhelpful. > With difficult to read you mean something like "someone decided > that it's a good idea to print the blocked packages atoms > in dark blue on black and other stuff in yellow > s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: You currently cannot smoothly upgrade a 4 months old Gentoo system

2021-11-04 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Philip Webb wrote: > Portage error msgs are difficult to read & often simply unhelpful. With difficult to read you mean something like "someone decided that it's a good idea to print the blocked packages atoms in dark blue on black and other stuff in yellow so it would be equally unreadable on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: You currently cannot smoothly upgrade a 4 months old Gentoo system

2021-11-03 Thread Philip Webb
211103 Joshua Kinard wrote: > That all said, am I alone in thinking > the way Portage emits error messages about dependency resolution problems > is extremely messy and border-line unreadable at times? > The current way it outputs depgraph errors > feels like something I'd expect from a --debug swi

[gentoo-dev] Re: You currently cannot smoothly upgrade a 4 months old Gentoo system

2021-11-03 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 11/3/2021 11:03, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: > Hi, > > it is currently not possible to smoothly run a world upgrade on a 4 > months old system which doesn't even have a complicated package list: [snip] > This is not about finding solution to upgrade the system (in this case > it was enough to