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Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com> posted |
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d257c3560811230356l13b249cfm8fd974dfc493b094@××××××××××.com, excerpted |
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below, on Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:56:36 +0000: |
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> with portage i had very often issues with having the deps discovered |
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> in the right way. of course when the system is up and running this |
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> isn't so much of a trouble, but when you set it up or when |
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> you do an upgrade that still has quite some deps discovered then the |
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> problem is to be seen. |
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Hmm... I've never had a major problem in that regard. At least not since |
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my initial from-stage-one installation back with 2004.0 (first try) |
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and .1 (actual success). But portage is so changed since then it's |
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really not worth considering, and it could have just as easily been my |
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goofs, I know I was learning a quite a bit as I went, or bad ebuilds. |
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Other than that, there has been perhaps an occasional minor niggle, but |
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nothing someone running ~arch shouldn't expect from time to time and be |
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able to work out or revert to a working version (perhaps the known |
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working version on the rootbak image, snapshot taken when the system was |
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in known bootable and reasonably stable condition) should it be necessary. |
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Personally, however, I suspect that stable isn't really that much more |
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stable than ~arch, and the fact that my portage stub-scripts for @world |
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and @system all use -aNuDv so I get a preview, deep dependencies don't |
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get behind and USE flag changes get managed right away, plus routine use |
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of revdep-rebuild and --depclean, possibly none of which those on stable |
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are likely to do regularly let alone religiously, has a lot to do with my |
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relatively smooth ride, even on ~arch. |
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> well, anyway, i always find good having |
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> at least 2 working package installers |
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I saw that point made a few days ago and thought it was a good one. Of |
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course, if I were to do it given my stated position, I'd be merging |
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pkgcore instead. However, I've a decent enough familiarity with portage |
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that in some cases at least, it's easier to actually work the problem, |
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than it would be to learn my way around a second PM. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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