Are you merely ranting or asking for help? If the former, well, OK i Hear you. But I don't care.
If the latter, then you need to provide info like logs, output etc. ~amd64 works like a charm for me here. On Monday 12 April 2010 13:57:39 Mark Knecht wrote: > ...is not so good actually. Certainly not the way I'd want others to > experience Gentoo. > > OK, the ~amd64 upgrade to @system was easy and relatively painless. > The documents were fairly clear. There are things to learn, and old > friends like rc-update and df look different, but it worked and didn't > take long - less than an hour to reboot including editing - so that's > good. > > Unfortunately, simply allowing all environments & apps on the system > to go ~amd64 isn't working out as nicely. > > 1) xfce4 had one build failure. I masked it and the build finished. > xfce starts and seems to mostly work, but I get no wallpaper and the > right click for a menu on the desktop doesn't work. It's usable, but > clearly 'not stable'. > > 2) gnome-2.28 simply doesn't build. > > 3) I'm currently left with lots of things in emerge @preserved-rebuild > that don't build. emerge -DuN @world is not clean. > > QUESTION: Assume I'm happy with ~amd64 on @system, but want to build > the stable version of gnome or kde. How do I get it? Since gnome-2.26 > worked yesterday I tried masking >=gnome-2.28. emerge -DuN gnome. > Portage then didn't try to emerge the meta-package but doesn't take > all of gnome back to 2.26. There's no point trying kde as gnome pulled > in kde components that doesn't build either. Hopefully it's not 'mask > every package in gnome by hand'. > > At this point I'm left with a system that's not clean and to me not > terribly useful. Yesterday as stable I built xfce, gnome and kde in > under 4 hours and all 3 worked. Today both gnome and xfce aren't right > and I don't have kde. Probably this is some matter of learning to hold > back portage that I've never done before, rather than unleashing new > packages like you do on a stable system. > > How does one accomplish this? > > Thanks, > Mark -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
