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From: Roy Wright <roy@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Going ~x86?
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:02:56
Message-Id: 2C235B33-9FB6-468B-9211-D7FE8091884B@wright.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Going ~x86? by Albert Hopkins
1 On Nov 11, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote:
2
3 > So my advice is: pick and branch and stick with your own kind. It's
4 > far
5 > fewer headaches in the long run. And "unstable" isn't really
6 > unstable,
7 > it's "untested". There's a difference.
8 >
9
10 Also keep in mind that it's the ebuild that is "untested". The
11 package is usually what upstream has released as stable.
12
13 My advice is if you are willing to upgrade at least weekly then go
14 "untested", if you are willing to upgrade at least monthly, then go
15 "stable", else really be willing to work thru some hard upgrade
16 scenarios.
17
18 HTH,
19 Roy

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