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> I am however documenting my experiences for others than come after me |
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> to this question of "to ~amd64 or not ~amd64". Nothing more. It worked |
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> for Alan who is a __very__ experienced and capable person. It didn't |
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> work for Mark (at this point) who is a 10 year Gentoo user but |
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> __nothing__ more than a user type Those people can decide who they are |
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> closer to in capabilities and make their choice a bit more informed. |
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> I didn't wake up this morning thinking I could do what you and Neil |
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> and others on this list can with this distro. I'm not that silly! I |
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> just wanted to try ~amd64 to see what happened. It will take me less |
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> than 90 minutes to get to a new clean install if I blow everything |
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> away and start over. It's not a big deal. |
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> - Mark |
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Is there a reason why you want to run all @system as ~amd64, and the |
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rest stable. To me it makes more sense (especially for production |
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systems) to run @system as stable and only ~amd64 those apps and |
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dependencies you want/need to be bleeding edge. |
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Anyhow, what I really wanted to say is for more sensible unmasking, |
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check out autounmask: |
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moriah home # esearch autounmask |
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[ Results for search key : autounmask ] |
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[ Applications found : 1 ] |
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* app-portage/autounmask |
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Latest version available: 0.27 |
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Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] |
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Size of downloaded files: 3 kB |
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Homepage: http://download.mpsna.de/opensource/autounmask/ |
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Description: autounmask - Unmasking packages the easy way |
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License: GPL-2 |
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