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Hi Alan |
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On 12/20/06, Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za> wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 20 December 2006 16:56, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > I agree again. The ONLY problem I'm having with Gentoo is the devs |
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> > removing older revs of things from portage. (ati-drivers, MythTV, |
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> > etc.) |
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> In cases like that, you use portage overlays. Then the ebuild will |
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> always be there until *you* delete it |
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The problem with this view of overlays has been that I do an eix-sync |
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and find that something I'm currently running been removed from |
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portage - for whatever reason but mostly it's been security issues or |
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the developer not wanting to maintain an old version. At that point |
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it's gone. I cannot put into an overlay what I don't have. Probably |
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most frustrating has been that I don't know it will be removed until |
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it's been removed. At that point it's too late to be easy. (Nobody |
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said Gentoo cannot be easy - right? If they told me that I wouldn't be |
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able to run it!) ;-) |
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I understand that every package is out there in some repository on the |
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web. I think Neil has pointed me toward it once or twice at least. The |
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problem is for a user type like me, and yes, I'm *purely* a user type, |
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it's a bit beyond my skillset today to go get it and build the overlay |
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myself. |
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I've mentioned this in the past but the idea has never gained |
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traction. If portage is thinking about removing an ebuild from my |
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machine why not just move it to some location on my machine so I've |
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always got a copy of what I was running? I could build my overlay from |
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what's been moved there. No pain at all. Or I can do what you suggest |
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and remove it. |
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Anyway, that's my view from user land on this subject. It is only this |
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area where Gentoo is a bit of a pain for me. To be honest I still use |
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etc-update since I didn't get comfortable with dispatch-conf. I'd like |
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to be a bit more confident with the tools when it comes to updating |
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config files but it's not so bad to make it a problem. |
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> |
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> Just another example of The Gentoo Way where the user is completely in |
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> control :-) |
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I agree! Just looking for better data management, not a change in the system. |
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> [snip] |
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> > > I really don't care if Gentoo is considered a minority distro, it |
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> > > is not, and hopefully never will be, a mass market product. |
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> > I'd prefer it did not. I still love Gentoo. It's easily the most |
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> > stable distro I've ever run. (RH & Suse here.) The support from the |
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> > devs has been second to none. |
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> I can attest to that. I run ~x86 on this notebook, sync daily and on |
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> *testing* *unstable* ebuilds I have to fix things only about once a |
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> week on average. That's phenomenal. |
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> My day job is, amongst other things, delivering the Red Hat courses and |
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> supporting RHEL where we installed it for customers. Now RHEL is pretty |
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> good as an enterprise OS but it's also a binary distro and you are |
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> stuck with what the RH engineers decided to give you. They are a decent |
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> crowd and genuinely try their best but they can't satisfy everyone, so |
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> they've sacrificed flexibility for a standard, unchanging platform. To |
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> a gentoo user that just feels .... constrained |
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> alan |
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I'm 51, retired from Silicon Valley and now trade stocks for a living. |
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Unfortunately my trading platform is Windows but I'm writing you from |
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my #1 daytime machine - my AMD64 Gentoo desktop running Gnome - mostly |
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stable. For fun I write and record music using mostly Linux tools all |
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on Gentoo. My wife and 14 year old son run Gentoo. My 78 year old |
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father and 77 year old mother run Gentoo. Gentoo works, even for us |
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user types. ;-) |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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