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On 06/24/2009 03:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Gentoo is for me. Gentoo is the only distro I run and the only one |
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> I've run for at least 6 years. Gentoo has run on THIS VERY MACHINE for |
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> over 4 years and it is the ONLY distro that has EVER run on this |
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> machine. Today I run eix-sync and emerge xorg-x11 and the machine |
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> breaks and I cannot go back. It is not my choice that Gentoo |
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> maintainers decided to drop something from portage required to make |
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> this machine run and not give me a way to get it back. Portage chose |
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> to erase files on MY machine - files that are required to make the |
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> machine work. Gentoo package maintainers decided to obsolete my |
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> machine, not me. |
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You should have taken a backup of /usr/portage and created binary |
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packages using "quickpgk" before the update. Portage can't contain |
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every ancient version of every package out there. It would grow to |
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infinity. Old stuff has to go. That's the very nature of Gentoo's |
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"rolling release" nature (or on other words, its lack of a "stable" notion.) |
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Anyway, see my other post, maybe you can go on with the update and have |
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it working in the end. |
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> I'm sure there's some way to get things back working again but I don't |
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> know what they are. |
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The rule is simple. If a fresh installation of Gentoo wouldn't work, |
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you're out of luck. Gentoo lacks releases. Either you change hardware |
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or distribution. |
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