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On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 18:54, Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote:
> Sorry, this is almost one more day without really using my PC but leaving it 
> there, compiling and compiling and compiling and me watching TV waiting for 
> it. Boring, man. That's all. I did that twice in the last 2 weeks. I wanna 
> use now the bloody thing, not fixing its installations.  :-(
> 
> I mean, sure, this is a source-based distro. But it goes too far.

I'd recommend that people who don't want to have the latest and greatest
versions of everything (and everything that goes with it), don't use
--update with emerge.  That should help you avoid most problems.  We are
still devising a good distributed QA system, but that hasn't been added
to Portage yet :)

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins                                  <drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President                       http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.