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On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Mike Diehl <mdiehl@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Ok now, I'm getting fed up with all of the breakage that I've seen in Gentoo |
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> in the last few months. |
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Understood and personally felt. |
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<SNIP> |
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> emerge -C mktemp |
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Generally a *very* bad move unless you are *absolutely* sure that what |
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you are removing is not needed to keep the system working. |
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<SNIP> |
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> |
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> Has Gentoo become such a moving target that it's no longer suitable for |
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> normal, every day, usage? |
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OK, I'm a putz who has used Gentoo now for (I think) 8-9 years. I'm |
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not a developer, a programmer or a sys admin. Keep that in mind. |
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Gentoo goes through phases of relative stability interrupted by |
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periods of time where major problems dominate. (As seen by users, not |
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the Lords of Gentoo (LoG)) Personally I think we're in one of those |
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unfortunate periods of time where there is a relatively high number of |
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issues. I'm seeing it on all my machines. It's taking far more of my |
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time to deal with this than I wish it would. |
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1) ntp-update problems at boot time. |
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2) emerge -DuN world building lots of packages that are already on the |
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system but the LoG has apparently changed flags so emerge wants to |
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rebuild them. |
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3) New and unclear (to me) messages about portage flag overrides |
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caused by overlays I've been using for a while. |
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Am I frustrated like you? Yep. Very much so. Am I considering using |
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something else? Quite a few thoughts. Do I think there's a better |
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distro? Not that I know of. |
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My workload: |
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1) Gentoo 64-bit desktop |
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2) Gentoo 32-bit desktop |
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3) Gentoo 32-bit mythbackend |
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4) Gentoo 32-bit mythfrontend |
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5) Gentoo 32-bit mythfrontend |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |