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On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 13:26 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 11 April 2007 10:56:40 Benedikt Boehm wrote: |
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> > ... don't care about an uber-vision or direction and just keep your |
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> > friggin packages alive and working? |
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> Indeed!! |
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> Doing an emerge --deep --update world last week b0rked updating about a |
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> couple of dozen packages. Evenutally I realized that the problem was |
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> gcc-4.1.2 had a supposedly executable file filled with zeros in its |
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> file-set. Masking gcc-4.1.2 and reverting to the 4.1.1 series has nearly |
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> got me going again.There is still one package which won't compile. |
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> OK I'm running ~x86 so I suppose I shouldn't complain, but |
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> This whole exercise, combined with the flame fests in here, has left me, a |
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> Gentoo user for many years, since version 1.2, feeling very upset and |
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> distinctly fiesty. Until the QA is a bit better I honestly feel I can't |
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> wholeheartedly recommend Gentoo anymore. |
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Well, I don't know what your problem really is about; I'm running x86, |
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and if something breaks on my system, it's mostly not because of broken |
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packages, but because I should have been informed about possible issues |
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that could have been caused by an upgrade, and how to avoid them. Often, |
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ebuilds contain very important information that are brought to the user |
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via elog, ewarn and friends. The problem with this approach is, that I |
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won't read these messages if I'm doing a world update while I'm asleep. |
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This is, why I think, that it should be one of Gentoos highest |
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priorities to implement Glep 42 and make heavy use of it. |
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Matthias |
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