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Because each update basically rebuilds the same three or four |
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super-packages (libreoffice, chromium, the kde collection, etc) all of |
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which are version bumped every 12 milliseconds just to annoy ppl like |
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me, and because I had such a Good Time (tm) last SEVERAL times I tried |
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to update, I decided to put it off for six months.... |
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Well later that day X'doze crashes after an uptime of about 30 days... |
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(So I updated, there were problems but nothing worse than par...) |
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Also, I realize that Linux is going to go through a Dark Age and |
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probably be destroyed and re-built several times before emerging again |
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as a usable operating system, I am going to be climbing up from my |
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previous freeze at 4.15 to 4.18 which I will probably have to nurse |
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through 5-6 years of war and upheval... |
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(I am currently on 4.16, will try to go to 4.17 at next boot...) |
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The biggest problem I have right now is all the button-icons in fvwm |
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have gone poof. =( |
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I didn't do anything that portage didn't demand I do... The window |
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manager is really not usable without those icons, I know some of them by |
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memory but a 3x3 matrix of blank buttons is not acceptable. |
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The only two window managers available on gentoo, are twm -- which is |
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all you need as an emergency de-fsck tool and fvwm which will do 99% of |
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everything you actually need. |
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