On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > >
Neither. I think I asked a simple question. How does one get ~amd64 @system and stable everything else? If the answer is 'you can't' or 'it's immensely hard because you have to -~arch everything by hand' then I'll just go back to stable, whether it is easy or requires me to rebuild the system from scratch. I'm certainly not ranting. I don't think that tone should came across in what I wrote and if you're reading that in then it's on your end not mine. (Although I apologize for writing anything that made that happen!) I have __nothing__ on this system. The hardware is brand new. It's been said time and time again that running all ~arch on other people's systems (like yours) works great and I wanted to try it. It's certainly not working for me at this point but I'm not upset, mad, or anything like that. I'm asking a simple question. That's it. Nothing more. I am however documenting my experiences for others than come after me to this question of "to ~amd64 or not ~amd64". Nothing more. It worked for Alan who is a __very__ experienced and capable person. It didn't work for Mark (at this point) who is a 10 year Gentoo user but __nothing__ more than a user type Those people can decide who they are closer to in capabilities and make their choice a bit more informed. I didn't wake up this morning thinking I could do what you and Neil and others on this list can with this distro. I'm not that silly! I just wanted to try ~amd64 to see what happened. It will take me less than 90 minutes to get to a new clean install if I blow everything away and start over. It's not a big deal. - Mark
