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On Friday 15 January 2010 15:04:12 Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> Some time ago, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On Wednesday 11 November 2009 17:21:26 Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> > > I wonder if it's worth the trouble. I read here that running a full |
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> > > ~x86 system would probably be easier. And I'd like to try, but while |
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> > > going from x86 to ~x86 is easy, the other way is quite hard, isn't |
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> > > it? If possible at all. |
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> > yes, it is easier to just go ~x86. Yes, it is very very very hard to go |
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> > back - easier to reinstall |
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> I hope I will not have to do so :) But I have a backup, just in case. |
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> BTW, why would the downgrade be so painful? Is this because of the |
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> impossible glibc downgrade, or are there even more problems? |
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glibc is the one thing that makes it almost impossible. Everything else just |
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makes it very very hard. |
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[snip] |
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> Now I have a final question (for the moment). What is this ~x86 called? |
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> Writing is easy, 4 characters, but how is this pronounced? Tilde-ex- |
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> eightysix / tilde-arch? Or is it just testing? The problem came up when I |
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> was at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin and talked to the guys |
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> at the Gentoo desk. |
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any of those will do. Even "unstable arch". |
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Anyone with more than a few days experience with gentoo will know what you are |
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talking about. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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