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> 1) spending several hours checking out the ~amd64 packages I |
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> emerged, to see if they are available in stable, and which |
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> dependencies can then be brought back to amd64. As spare |
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> time is a rather scarce resource for me, I don't want to do |
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> this unless absolutely necessary |
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I know where you are comming from... |
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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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1. Advise wife that Wndows won't do 1/2 of what GNU/Linux will, and the |
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other 1/2 that windows does do, doesn't work properly anyway... |
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2. I went totally ~amd64 months ago, I tend not to notice too many |
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issues.. the only thing has been the bash isue recently.. |
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> 3) Do nothing and hope for the best. |
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er... perhaps not the best plan in the world, but if it's not broken, |
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don't fix it... |
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> 4) Go Kubuntu. I really like Gentoo, but if system administration |
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> will take too much time, this may be my only path left :-( |
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see last answer.... |
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> So, I am asking for advice from the more experienced Gentooers |
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> here. How do you deal with the ~amd64 packages? |
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see above... |
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