Apparently, though unproven, at 00:16 on Tuesday 03 May 2011, Stroller did opine thusly:
> On 2/5/2011, at 8:39pm, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > ... > > Two final DONTs: > > > > Never blindly accept what depclean says and let it do it's thing. Study > > the output, the warning printed on the screen to do just that is there > > for a reason. > > > > Never blindly update protected config files with etc-update etc. Check > > each one individually and do it manually. > > Also: DO configure Portage to email its elog messages to you, so that > there's no chance of you failing to read any one of them. I prefer to > process each one before closing the tmux session in which I'm performing > the emerge. > > $ grep -i mail /etc/make.conf > PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save mail" > PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="root" > PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM="portage@hostname" > $ > > Stroller. Thanks for that, you might have noticed the [1] footnote marker I left, and forgot to add the footnote :-) It was going to say pretty much what you said. I just forgot to do it! -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
