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On Aug 14, 2005, at 9:01 PM, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> Paul Hoy wrote: |
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>> On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:24 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>>> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 15:42:19 -0400, Paul Hoy wrote: |
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>>>> I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty |
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>>>> good job at supporting Gnome, however, it's still behind other |
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>>>> releases, such as Fedora, in terms of when it releases updates, |
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>>>> etc. |
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>>> Gentoo has rolling updates, so it is always up to date. If you |
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>>> want to |
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>>> run the latest of everything you will need to run a ~arch system. |
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>>> There |
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>>> are no releases for Gentoo beyond the installation live CDs. Once |
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>>> installed, provided you keep up to date, there is no difference |
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>>> between a |
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>>> system installed three years ago and one installed yesterday. |
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>>> -- |
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>>> Neil Bothwick |
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>>> Windows Error #09: Game Over. Exiting Windows. |
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>> Hi Neil, |
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>> ~arch is a little scary for me, since it's not in the stable branch. |
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> We, you do know that you can pick which ~arch packages you want, |
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> right? In most cases it's pretty safe to use a "keyword masked" |
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> package, especially if the masked package is not depended on by |
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> your core gentoo system. |
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> Zac |
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> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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Hi Zac, |
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Yes, I know how to unmask. But, when you say "pick which ~arch |
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packages...," does this mean I can search for ~arch packages too or |
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do I have to set the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS variable? |
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Paul |
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