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Francesco Riosa posted on Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:32:56 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> Actually an `emerge -uDN @world` fail constantly, because of broken deps |
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> and other stuff (given a desktop profile with a good number of packages) |
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> this fact render gentoo very unpleasant to keep up to date, it has never |
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> been a breeze but it was better. |
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As a gentoo user for over a decade that takes his job as an admin (if you |
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are responsible for a machine including updates and decisions what it |
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will run, you're an admin, for better or worse) seriously... |
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I don't see emerges being much more difficult now that before. Rather |
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the reverse, as they offer more information about what's going wrong, |
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now, and for someone serious about admining gentoo boxen, about how to |
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fix the problems, since they stay informed on how their tools work, just |
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as a skilled carpenter knows well how /his/ tools work. |
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Of course, that's why I subscribe here, too, because as an admin serious |
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about the job, I appreciate the value of the heads-up I get from this |
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list on most big changes. |
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OTOH, I run ~arch and always have, so what deps look like on sta(b)le I |
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couldn't say. To a large extent, gentoo depends on the people running |
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stable to care about it and report problems (with the same applying to |
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~arch, of course). Tools only go so far... it still takes someone |
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skilled in using them to produce anything of value. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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