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On Sunday, 7 October 2018 04:56:07 BST Alan Grimes wrote: |
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> =\ |
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> Because each update basically rebuilds the same three or four |
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> super-packages (libreoffice, chromium, the kde collection, etc) all of |
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> which are version bumped every 12 milliseconds just to annoy ppl like |
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> me, and because I had such a Good Time (tm) last SEVERAL times I tried |
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> to update, I decided to put it off for six months.... |
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On a stable install the annoyance is much reduced, to the point of being non- |
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existent. Chromium and FF may ask to be updated once every 2-4 weeks. KDE/ |
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Plasma once every 3-4 months. Yes, there may be the odd version bump here and |
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there, but not often enough to cause a problem. |
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On an ~arch you get what you asked for. |
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> Well later that day X'doze crashes after an uptime of about 30 days... |
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> (So I updated, there were problems but nothing worse than par...) |
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> Also, I realize that Linux is going to go through a Dark Age and |
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> probably be destroyed and re-built several times before emerging again |
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> as a usable operating system, I am going to be climbing up from my |
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> previous freeze at 4.15 to 4.18 which I will probably have to nurse |
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> through 5-6 years of war and upheval... |
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> (I am currently on 4.16, will try to go to 4.17 at next boot...) |
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> The biggest problem I have right now is all the button-icons in fvwm |
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> have gone poof. =( |
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> I didn't do anything that portage didn't demand I do... The window |
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> manager is really not usable without those icons, I know some of them by |
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> memory but a 3x3 matrix of blank buttons is not acceptable. |
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> The only two window managers available on gentoo, are twm -- which is |
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> all you need as an emergency de-fsck tool and fvwm which will do 99% of |
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> everything you actually need. |
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There are many more. Try: |
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ls /usr/portage/x11-wm |
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The icons problem you are mentioning is usually caused by a theme not being |
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specified, or the one specified having components missing. I am not familiar |
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with fvwm, but have a look at logs in e.g. ~/.xsession-errors to see what it |
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can't find. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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