On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Wyatt Epp <wyatt....@gmail.com> wrote: > Greets, > > So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that I > had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. Things like the > danger of depclean or the way portage will only show one mask at a time. So > I was curious...what have people that are not myself and my mate noticed > that is mildly irritating and disruptive to the Gentoo experience? > > Cheers, > Wyatt >
Portage removing packages from my system that I need to keep the system working only because someone outside my house decides it's not going to be supported anymore. This has caused me lots of problems over the years, most specifically with ATI drivers. New versions do not support the S-Video outputs I need on my Myth frontend boxes so I cannot build a Gentoo system from scratch anymore. Something I'm using gets removed and I cannot upgrade due to the hardware that's running. Then I have to go find an old version in the attic, create an overlay, and start supporting that overlay by hand. Easy for others, I think, but somehow not for me. I'd really appreciate it if something would create the overlay for me and move code out of distfiles and into my private overlay so t I didn't ever lose anything. If I chose to delete it later, that's my business, but it would happen on my schedule. Thanks, Mark
