On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 05:11:14PM -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote > Do you have that little faith in the Gentoo Developers, that you > think we'd make a USE flag change that made everyone's systems > suddenly break? > > :(
I was around way back when "ipv6" became the default. I was using Firefox back then. Type in a URL; Firefox spins its wheels for 60 seconds in IPV6; it finally gives up and drops down to IPV4. This happened with every URL. After that I ran with USE="-* yada yada yada" for quite some time. Currently, I'm less extreme, merely disabling a bunch of USE flags... USE="X apng ffmpeg introspection jpeg opengl openmp png truetype x264 x265 xorg threads vala -acl -caps -clang -context -elogind -filecaps -graphite -gstreamer -haptic -iptables -ipv6 -libav -llvm -manpager -pam -sendmail -spirv -tofu -su -udisks -upower -wayland" The "szip" and "xinerama" USE flags seem to have disappeared. And who can forget the move from /dev/hda hdb hdc etc., to /dev/sda sdb sdc etc.? Machine literally unbootable on the newly compiled kernel. Fortunately, I always have "Production" and "Experimental" kernels. The newly compiled kernel is always "Experimental". If things go badly, I drop back to the "Production" kernel and try to figure out what went wrong. Only after a long while do I execute my "promote" script that copies "Experimental" over top of "Production". -- There are 2 types of people 1) Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data
