Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Going ~x86?
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:06:56
Message-Id: 200911111906.49350.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Going ~x86? by Mark Knecht
1 On Mittwoch 11 November 2009, Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
3 > wrote: <SNIP>
4 >
5 > > yes, it is easier to just go ~x86. Yes, it is very very very hard to go
6 > > back - easier to reinstall
7 >
8 > Isn't there a lot more work to do to keep it up to date? Seems to me
9 > testing packages are going to change more often and as not every one
10 > of them will eventually become stable. Isn't it just a lot more
11 > electrons burned to keep things emerge -DuN @world clean?
12 >
13 > I run stable except for portage and eix, and then a couple of audio
14 > apps I care about like Ardour and Jack which come from external
15 > overlays and aren't tested by the mainline Gentoo guys anyway.
16 >
17 > - Mark
18 >
19
20 not really. there isn't such a big difference between the daily stabilization
21 and the daily version bump. so you might emerge a few packages more in the
22 same time frame, but the difference is not that big.