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On 11/16/05, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:50:00 -0500, Derek Tracy wrote: |
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> > The biggest reason for the reinstall was because in my contant playing |
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> > around with DE's and WM's trying to find one that I completely liked. I |
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> > had KDE, GNOME, E17, FVWM, OpenBOX (I think that is it) all on my |
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> > system. In all of my toying around I found out a lot about myself, for |
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> > 1 GUI applications make me work slower and FVWM was and is all I need |
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> > to make me happy. So I could either unemerge KDE GNOME and the rest |
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> > (which would surely leave all sorts of unneeded libs and things) or I |
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> > could reinstall. |
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> emerge -C kde-meta gnome |
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> emerge depclean -a |
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Thank you. If this system gets over cluttered again I will do just that. |
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> Much easier than reinstalling, and the reason for depclean. |
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> > To me reinstallation sounded a lot easier. |
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> Reinstallation is never easier. All it ever does is hide the issues, you |
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> never find out how to resolve them. |
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> > That is what I was thinking when I switched to stable..... From what I |
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> > am seeing either my computer doesn't like stable code or stable does |
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> > not mean stable anymore. |
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> It's not about stable code, that is up to the upstream developers. arch |
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> vs. ~arch is about the stability of the ebuilds, and this is using stable |
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> in the same way that Debian do; not changing. An arch ebuild is stable |
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> because it has not changed in, usually, at least 30 days. A ~arch ebuild |
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> is for testing, it does not mean the program is unstable. |
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I can definately see your point and I have never heard arch and ~arch |
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explained like that. It gives me a lot of food for thought. Again |
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thank you. |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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> First Law of Laboratory Work: |
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To give a big update. In the original post I mentioned that I was in |
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the middle of doing an emerge -e world after changing from x86 to ~x86 |
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Well after the compile completed I did a quick etc-update.. Re-emerged |
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madwifi-driver and ipw2200 ipw2200-firmware nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx |
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(I did not change any other config files) and low and behold after a |
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quick reboot everything was working again. |
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Derek Tracy |
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tracyde@×××××.com |
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