One of the nice things about git, is the ability to work in a distributed manor. Instead of having to have a central repository for your source code, you can create a copy of your repository and do work, while sharing the changes, on any number of machines. Often, when a few developers [...]

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So I left all these servers running gentoo a couple years ago. Now, after all this time (and uptime!), I want to install something.
Error:
 
emerge -av portage
 
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
 
Calculating dependencies |
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=dev-lang/python-2.5" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required [...]

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I hate it when I download a source archive, uncompress it, and find that instead of creating a package directory, with the contents of the archive, the archive was created with a bunch of files at the root directory. Suppose I have a downloads directory with lots of archives. After I uncompress this [...]

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