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Michael Ulm wrote: |
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> 2) Go totally ~amd64. I am slightly worried about system |
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> stability in this scenario. Every time the system hiccups |
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> my wife tells me that this never happened in Windows... |
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I've been running ~amd64 for a year or more now, and I've had no problems |
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with upgrades breaking things. The only difficult upgrades seem to occur |
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when a new profile is distributed, and you don't have to do anything when |
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that happens - you opt into it, not out of it. |
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I suppose the occasional problem does crop up, which I usually find easy to |
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fix by putting the problem version of the package concerned into |
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package.mask, thus: |
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# cat /etc/portage/package.mask |
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=app-shells/bash-3.1 |
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=mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.5 |
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As for Windows, I loathe it more daily. Its sheer arrogance is about its |
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worst feature - it insists it knows better than I do, no matter what little |
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thing I'm trying to do. I suppose I could fork out thousands for the course |
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that would tell me some basic things, but why should I? That's for large |
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corporations, not the middle-aged pensioner. |
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I could go on about comparisons between Word and the late, lamented Word |
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Perfect, but I'd better not. |
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Rgds |
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Peter. |
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