-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Neil Bothwick wrote: | On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:09:45 -0500, Chris Walters wrote:
| I run two completely ~amd64 systems here and have very few problems. I've run testing on Gentoo and other distributions. With Gentoo, for over a year, with few problems, and those were generally easily fixed. | The ~ in ~amd64 means the ebuilds are in testing, not that they, or the | software they install, are considered unstable in the "likely to crash" | meaning of the term. Because you are using bleeding edge ebuilds, there | is the odd occasion when things don't play nicely together, or mistakes | are made. The gawk problem one one such situation, where it depended on a | library in /usr/lib and broke any system with /usr on a separate | filesystem. It didn't require a reinstall to fix, I know because I was | hit by it and didn't reinstall. It was a one-off that was fixed quickly, | if you didn't sync and update each day you could easily have missed it. | | The testing ebuilds are for just that, it is only by people using them | and reporting problems that those problems are kept out of the stable | tree. If you are not prepared to deal with the occasional problem, | running a testing system is not for you. I find these paragraphs to be rude and insulting. I am not an idiot - I know exactly what "testing" means, and what "unstable" means. Just because I ask a relatively simple question in this group does not mean that I am "not prepared to deal with the occasional problem". Were that the case, I would not be working with computers at all, since all operating systems and distributions have an "occasional problem" even in their "stable" branches. Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFHyt3tUx1jS/ORyCsRCt5YAJ9yTa9Bz9zWJjgn9moyE2mi/0FIGgCfX3OY KWvc1mFs3pZiOOJIZuwE7dY= =m3jB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
