Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.26 stable?

[Daniel Troeder <daniel@admin-box.com>]

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 18:19 -0700, walt wrote:
> I run gnome on my ~amd64 machine and have had no problems at all (so far).
> IMHO it's safe to run gnome on an ~amd64 machine, but I've not used the
> unstable gnome desktop on a stable amd64 machine.  Just from past experience
> I might expect problems from mixing stable/unstable in that manner.  But
> I can offer no evidence either way.
I'm running testing GNOME on a "stable" system, with tesing
audio/video/gfx/xorg stuff.
Everything I consider "moving fast" is testing, the rest of the system
is stable. Works good for me. Just that I have to unmask more and more
base packages too, because they are a dependency of other unmasked
packages...

$ wc -l /etc/portage/package.*
  593 /etc/portage/package.keywords
    2 /etc/portage/package.mask
   32 /etc/portage/package.unmask
   23 /etc/portage/package.use
  650 total

(cleaned number after checking for comments with
$ egrep '^#' /etc/portage/package.*
)

$ eix -I --only-names | wc -l
1194

Well... I wouldn't call a system with 50% testing packages officially
"stable" - though it is. :D

Bye,
Daniel