From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HbReS-0005yr-IO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:29:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3B1SdNS008521; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:28:39 GMT Received: from smtp4.clear.net.nz (smtp4.clear.net.nz [203.97.37.64]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3B1Qc5c006143 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:26:39 GMT Received: from [10.0.0.2] (203-97-115-119.cable.telstraclear.net [203.97.115.119]) by smtp4.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0JGB00NGE80C4G30@smtp4.clear.net.nz> for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:26:37 +1200 (NZST) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:26:34 +1200 From: Christopher Sawtell Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why don't you just ... In-reply-to: <461C1628.7010703@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <200704111326.35139.csawtell@paradise.net.nz> Organization: At Home Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <461C1628.7010703@gentoo.org> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 X-Archives-Salt: 8149b555-633b-49ed-ab93-c9744513eb16 X-Archives-Hash: 089edf72da69b886fc057958e4427392 On Wednesday 11 April 2007 10:56:40 Benedikt Boehm wrote: > ... don't care about an uber-vision or direction and just keep your > friggin packages alive and working? Indeed!! Doing an emerge --deep --update world last week b0rked updating about a couple of dozen packages. Evenutally I realized that the problem was gcc-4.1.2 had a supposedly executable file filled with zeros in its file-set. Masking gcc-4.1.2 and reverting to the 4.1.1 series has nearly got me going again.There is still one package which won't compile. OK I'm running ~x86 so I suppose I shouldn't complain, but This whole exercise, combined with the flame fests in here, has left me, a Gentoo user for many years, since version 1.2, feeling very upset and distinctly fiesty. Until the QA is a bit better I honestly feel I can't wholeheartedly recommend Gentoo anymore. > I'm so sick to hear people crying that noone is around to tell them what > to do.. Well I'm sick of seeing people wasting their precious time playing politics, misunderstanding eachother and flaming as a consequence. > So here is my proposal: > > ABSTAIN! > > That's it for now :) Absolutely!!!! -- CS -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list