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Bill, have you used RPMs <G>. Then you will appreciate portage <G>. When |
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I came to Gentoo from Caldera it was such a relief not to have to use |
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RPMs! It's never faltered on me and the ~arch keeps "unstable" stuff out |
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of my sight unless |
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I chose it. |
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On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, W.Kenworthy wrote: |
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> Its ok for a quick check - especially as I dont want ~x86 samba on that |
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> system. |
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> I regard /etc/portage and the way it has been done is a disaster waiting |
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> to happen. You have files hidden away in there that unless you make the |
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> effort, can (and do) keep insecure versions of software on your system - |
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> make sure you regularly check what you put in there! It also did not |
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> work properly on two of my systems (one has been decommissioned and the |
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> other has been so much upgraded I think the problem has gone away - I |
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> gave up after hours of trying to track down inconsistencies. |
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> Sorry, but I hanker back to simpler times when -i made things so easy |
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> and I didnt have to worry about someones idea of an "elegant" fix ... |
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> BillK |
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> On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 19:45 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: |
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>> On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 07:14 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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>>> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerge samba -s |
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>> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS done on the command line is a very poor idea, |
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>> use /etc/portage/package.use instead. |
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>> I forget the specifics, but I have seen a system run into serious |
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>> problems and library screwups over that. |
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Brett I. Holcomb |
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