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On 12/8/09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Let me emphasise yet again: the way I do things has been successful |
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>> on 2 machines for more than 6 years; it's others who have problems |
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>> doing it their way & regularly seek advice on this list as a result. |
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> Let me correct you there: |
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> The experienced old hands here almost uniformly do not have such problems. |
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> It's the n00bs who don't grok portage just yet, or don't know to look inside |
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> ebuilds when the ebuild goes wonky, who have such problems. The classic |
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> cause of problems is mixing stable and testing |
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I think Mr. Webb might be running his gentoo systems like they were |
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some Slackware boxes. I sure run mine like they were Windows/Red |
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Hat/Ubuntu mongrels. Praise the FSM and his noodly appendages for live |
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cds, for times when installs go bad! :) |
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"Dependency management is left up to the sysadmin, and that's the way |
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we like it." [1] |
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[1] http://www.slackbook.org/html/package-management.html |
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Habits learned on other systems (Red Hat, Slackware, Ubuntu, OS X, MS |
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Windows etc) are hard to "un-learn" if they don't break anything in |
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your current system. You just keep on trucking like before. |
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