On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: > OK, I will try making all the gst-plugins unstable and see if that > fixes things -- I have been warned not to convert the whole box to > unstable -- is this a correct warning?
Depends how much you adore gentoo and how much time you are willing to devote to b.g.o.... I have no trouble with this ~x86 notebook running cvs-e17/kde-3.5.9/kde-4 beyond the occasional blockers. I equate ~arch to similar to an Ubuntu release, and plain old arch to similar to a Debian release. Users don't seem to suffer their machines self-destructing when they install the latest Ubuntu.... so to my mind the warning about ~arch are over-rated for desktop users. Others might disagree <shrug> > I have been just putting the > packages in the package.keywords when portage tells me to -- which is > usually quite a few for every update. I tried that once. Turns out that (for me) fiddling with package.keywords to get the right combination like you are having to do now was infinitely more trouble than just going ~arch Which way to go is a decision you must make for yourself. I can tell you what I think but it really is up to you in the end. Just be warned that there is no easy way to revert back to arch from ~arch if you do switch ;-) -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
