Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions

[Mike Bonar]

On Wednesday 27 September 2006 12:35, Daniel Iliev wrote:
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> BTW, Everyone,
> I'm observing something very interesting:
> I was told not to go gentoo-amd64 for it was not stable. I was told not
> to migrate because there were still many important programs pending to
> be ported. I read almost everywhere about headaches and breakages.
> Reading your replies in this thread also suggests strictly following the
> official way otherwise - problems.
> It is very strange - I was ready to meet tons of major problems but I
> haven't met a single one yet. It is my opinion that the possibility of
> problems on gentoo-amd64 is highly overrated. I installed it with no
> problems, I obviously have tweaked it a lot beyond normal and what I see
> is a perfectly working system. It appears that gentoo-amd64 team along
> with the GNU, linux-kernel and all other nice guys who provide free/open
> source software have done a great work and we owe them BIG THANKS. I
> just wonder how come that so many people talk about some non-existing
> problems.
> How come that still in my first try I have bootstrapped from stage3,
> made "emerge -e system", installed xfce4, gnome, firefox, thunderbird,
> and a bunch of other packages along with all their dependencies, then
> made "emerge -e world" and after all this compiling I had to do "emerge
> --resume" only once when some package wanted mysql build with -fpic
> flag. I'm I lucky or what? ;-)
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Daniel
Somebody misinformed you.  Gentoo-amd64 rulez, the rest drule! ;-)  I run the 
unstable (~amd64) branch, and even that is rock solid.  Sure it breaks now 
and then, but that's why they call it unstable.  Your success with your first 
build is a testament to the great community we have here.  Welcome aboard!

glide
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