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On Tuesday 02 May 2006 09:34 am, Richard Fish wrote: |
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> On 5/1/06, Farhan Ahmed <farhanahmed06@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > If you wish to have latest packages, change ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86", it |
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> > might make your system a bit unstable but going through my experience it |
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> > has not broken a thing in my system. |
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> And I recommend that you do *not* set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 unless you |
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> are prepared for the consequences. |
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WHAT CONSEQUENCES!? |
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I've asked on multiple occassions for a comparison to a Debian paradigm. My |
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first distro was Debian. So a comparison to Debian would do me a world of |
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good. |
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> It is very much a testing environment, where either the ebuild or the |
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> package itself might not be completely stable, or worse, incompatible |
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> with previous configuration files or other packages on your system. |
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> Baselayout and udev have been particularly 'dangerous' on ~x86 |
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> recently. |
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> Additionally, ~x86 updates more frequently than x86, so you will have |
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> much more downloading and compiling to do at each update. |
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Yeah, I think I'll avoid that until I have a distcc network running! |
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Compiling on my poor laptop takes *forever!* |
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> Yes ~x86 does work most of the time, and the Gentoo devs are extremely |
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> good at fixing problems quickly. But it can be expected to break |
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> occasionally, and you need to know what do when it does. |
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Mean time to failure? |
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> If you want ~x86 for specific packages, use /etc/portage/package.keywords. |
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Okay. |
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