Re: [gentoo-user] Calm

[Dale]

Top posting since John started it.  lol 

Can you two explain this to Alan Grimes?  He seems to think emerge has
some very serious problems.  ;-) 

I might add, I recently went through the KDE plasma update which
involved a ton of rebuilds/upgrades.  Since I run a mix of stable and
unstable, it took some effort to get it all sorted BUT emerge did a
pretty good job of telling me what was needed.  Once I got the proper
things in the keyword and USE file, it was off to compile land for
several hours.  I might add, I had to use some of Alan McKinnion's logic
to understand emerge's output. 

I might add, I also recently did a emerge -e world.  Out of all the over
1,400 packages installed on this machine, only one failed.  I can't
recall the package name but I seem to recall keywording to a newer
version and that worked.  Still, 1 out of over 1400 packages.  That's
pretty dang good.  About 99.9% success.  Almost like 24 caret gold. 

It seems you two are not alone on being some happy Gentooers.  :-D 

Dale

:-)  :-)



John Blinka wrote:
> I've been meaning to write such a post for some time now.  Thanks for
> prompting me to add my 2 cents.
>
> I've been using Gentoo for perhaps 15 years.  There have been a few
> rough patches along the way resolved by new reinstalls, but overall
> this has been by far the best computing environment I've ever used.
> (And one of the best online communities I've ever lurked in.)  I
> remember feeling quite apprehensive at my first install after giving
> the Handbook my first look, but that install went well, and I've never
> looked back.  I've been able to transition from using Gentoo as a
> professional development system for large scale parallel numerical
> stuff, to using it for some personal work in medical informatics, and
> lately digital photography.  In general, I've found that Gentoo just
> works, given a little effort to understand how to make it work via its
> truly wonderful array of well written documentation.  I really like
> the ease with which I've been able to venture into new categories of
> software and computing. Every time I've needed something new, it's
> been in portage and has been fairly easy to install, configure, and use.
>
> I recently had to do reinstalls on all my systems due to disk
> failures.  Took a few days, but I've been living in a sweet spot ever
> since, with everything working perfectly on all systems.
>
> Thanks to all who've made this possible!
>
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de
> <mailto:acm@×××.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hello, Gentoo.
>
>     I'm just saying hello to confirm I'm still here.
>
>     For many months now, Gentoo has simply worked for me, without
>     problems.
>     I sync my system several times a week, and emerge just works.
>
>     The last bit of excitement I had was in early 2015 when I was
>     trying to
>     sort out the mess in my xfce4 system after gnome-3 had been made
>     stable.
>     In the end, I gave up and reinstalled Gentoo, which this time took me
>     only a week.
>
>     Admittedly, there's very little which is cutting edge on my system
>     - the
>     box is 6½ years old, it boots with lilo on an old fashioned BIOS, my
>     filesystems are ext3 (or in one case, ext2) on spinning rust.  The
>     only
>     remotely adventurous things I've got are RAID-1 (via the kernel) and
>     lvm2.
>
>     So a big thanks to all the developers who've brought about this happy
>     state of affairs!
>
>     --
>     Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
>
>