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Martin S <shieldfire@×××××.com> writes: |
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I recently did something similar only never got past thining I might |
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do it.... I too had gotten my OS pretty unstable by not really |
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understanding how keywording etc worked. I still don't really fully |
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get it but I came back thinking I'd stay with stable. |
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> Back to Gentoo. And battling my own errors... |
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> I think I'll run the stable branch this time though. |
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What had happened to cause you to need to reinstall? |
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For me it was running: |
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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -vuD world |
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Not realizing the repercussions, like that all dependancies would be |
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unmasked too. |
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That eventuall got me into a pretty big mess. |
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When I reinstalled gentoo my plan was to stay with stable like you. |
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However I soon scrapped that too. Kde is about to jump to kde-3.5 |
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being stable I think and when I went to install kde it wanted to |
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install kde-3.4.3 meaning I'd soon be grinding through all of kde |
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again. Posters have argued that compiling kde is really so bad but I |
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still think its really a time waster. |
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Trying to unmask stuff soon turned into a pita although it can be |
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done. |
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I just started running with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" in /etc/make.conf |
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and decided to let the chips fall where they may. At least I don't |
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have to fiddle around with a mixture of stable and masked. |
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I doubt that above would be seen as very good plan by many though. |
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