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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's happened to gentoo-sources?
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 07:47:40
Message-Id: 20160830084722.009963a1@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: What's happened to gentoo-sources? by Kai Krakow
1 On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:34:55 +0200, Kai Krakow wrote:
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3 > Surprise surprise, 4.7 has this (still not fully fixed) oom-killer bug.
4 > When I'm running virtual machines, it still kicks in. I wanted to stay
5 > on 4.6.x until 4.8 is released, and only then switch to 4.7. Now I was
6 > forced early (I'm using btrfs), and was instantly punished by doing so:
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8 No one forced you to do anything. You 4.6 kernel was still in boot, your
9 4.6 sources were still installed. The ebuild was only removed fro the
10 portage tree, nothing was uninstalled from your system unless you did it.
11 Even the ebuild was still on your computer in /var/db/pkg.
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15 Neil Bothwick
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17 The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to
18 eat.

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