Re: [gentoo-user] Can anyone tell me?

[Chris Walters]

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Neil Bothwick wrote:
| On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:09:45 -0500, Chris Walters wrote:

| I run two completely ~amd64 systems here and have very few problems.

I've run testing on Gentoo and other distributions.  With Gentoo, for over a
year, with few problems, and those were generally easily fixed.

| The ~ in ~amd64 means the ebuilds are in testing, not that they, or the
| software they install, are considered unstable in the "likely to crash"
| meaning of the term. Because you are using bleeding edge ebuilds, there
| is the odd occasion when things don't play nicely together, or mistakes
| are made. The gawk problem one one such situation, where it depended on a
| library in /usr/lib and broke any system with /usr on a separate
| filesystem. It didn't require a reinstall to fix, I know because I was
| hit by it and didn't reinstall. It was a one-off that was fixed quickly,
| if you didn't sync and update each day you could easily have missed it.
|
| The testing ebuilds are for just that, it is only by people using them
| and reporting problems that those problems are kept out of the stable
| tree. If you are not prepared to deal with the occasional problem,
| running a testing system is not for you.

I find these paragraphs to be rude and insulting.  I am not an idiot - I know
exactly what "testing" means, and what "unstable" means.  Just because I ask a
relatively simple question in this group does not mean that I am "not prepared
to deal with the occasional problem".  Were that the case, I would not be
working with computers at all, since all operating systems and distributions
have an "occasional problem" even in their "stable" branches.

Chris
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