Robert R. Russell wrote:
My answer is a simple example from my own system. My current system uses a motherboard that is around 6 months old and is only correctly supported by the latest ~arch gentoo-sources. The add on video card, a 1 to 2 year old nvidia card, works great with x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv-2.1.12 as long as I am using the latest ~arch xorg-x11. The internal video card isn't even recognized by the xf86-video-intel drivers except the ~arch versions. Even some of the packages I use for school work such as kile have bugfixes and other improvements between the versions in stable and ~arch that are important to getting work done. The ability to selectively upgrade only the specific packages needed to get a working system is a major strength for Gentoo.
With all of these problems, it sounds like in your case, our stable tree isn't living up to our hopes. *This* is the problem you should be bringing to our attention, instead of complications with portage and EAPI.
I looked up your email address on bugzilla, hoping to find at least 5 bug reports, one for each of the problems you describe above. I could only find one (and even that one doesn't really make clear the fact that the current stable has problems which is affecting your schoolwork). Please could you fix that?
Thanks! Daniel
