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Neil Walker wrote: |
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> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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>> Sabayon is just gentoo with a different installer, correct? |
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> No, it's a binary distribution and a horrible mess. |
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>> So as long as you do your emerge sync && emerge -u world. you never |
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>> need to install a new version, right? |
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> That is about the most dangerous thing you can do on Sabayon - |
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> virtually guaranteed to break the system. It uses a mix of stable and |
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> testing with a huge list of packages in /etc/portage/package.keywords |
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> with ~arch. :( Any attempt to update the system the Gentoo way will |
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> lead to a tangle of blocks, upgrades, downgrades, package masks, etc. |
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> that can take a long time to sort out. At least that was how it was |
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> when I tried it. :( |
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Obviously my view wasn't as sophisticated or detailed, but in essence, |
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being a newbie, I felt the risk of that was too great. Hence wanting to |
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use the newer version to upgrade some key packages. |
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I'm going to play with gentoo some in a vmware instance so I can get |
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some idea of this emerge/compiling thingy :-) |
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Russ |
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