On 12/8/09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Let me emphasise yet again: the way I do things has been successful >> on 2 machines for more than 6 years; it's others who have problems >> doing it their way & regularly seek advice on this list as a result. > > Let me correct you there: > > The experienced old hands here almost uniformly do not have such problems. > It's the n00bs who don't grok portage just yet, or don't know to look inside > ebuilds when the ebuild goes wonky, who have such problems. The classic > cause of problems is mixing stable and testing
I think Mr. Webb might be running his gentoo systems like they were some Slackware boxes. I sure run mine like they were Windows/Red Hat/Ubuntu mongrels. Praise the FSM and his noodly appendages for live cds, for times when installs go bad! :) "Dependency management is left up to the sysadmin, and that's the way we like it." [1] [1] http://www.slackbook.org/html/package-management.html Habits learned on other systems (Red Hat, Slackware, Ubuntu, OS X, MS Windows etc) are hard to "un-learn" if they don't break anything in your current system. You just keep on trucking like before. -- Arttu V.
