On Friday 15 January 2010 15:04:12 Alex Schuster wrote: > Some time ago, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wednesday 11 November 2009 17:21:26 Alex Schuster wrote: > > > I wonder if it's worth the trouble. I read here that running a full > > > ~x86 system would probably be easier. And I'd like to try, but while > > > going from x86 to ~x86 is easy, the other way is quite hard, isn't > > > it? If possible at all. > > > > yes, it is easier to just go ~x86. Yes, it is very very very hard to go > > back - easier to reinstall > > I hope I will not have to do so :) But I have a backup, just in case. > BTW, why would the downgrade be so painful? Is this because of the > impossible glibc downgrade, or are there even more problems?
glibc is the one thing that makes it almost impossible. Everything else just makes it very very hard. [snip] > Now I have a final question (for the moment). What is this ~x86 called? > Writing is easy, 4 characters, but how is this pronounced? Tilde-ex- > eightysix / tilde-arch? Or is it just testing? The problem came up when I > was at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin and talked to the guys > at the Gentoo desk. any of those will do. Even "unstable arch". Anyone with more than a few days experience with gentoo will know what you are talking about. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
