Re: [gentoo-user] PANIC !!!!

[Allan Spagnol Comar <allan.comar@gmail.com>]

thank you all guys !!!
I understand now the complex resons to always have backups and test servers ;;;;
I am sorry to make such a mess at the list, it wasn´t my intantion,
thank one more time for the attention that was spend on my trouble. I
promise that in the next time I will make some more relevant posts.


On 10/22/05, Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl> wrote:
> Hemmann, Volker Armin schreef:
> > direct experience. I have seen xine and mplayer break multiple times
> > or KDE loosing its themes,
>
> Yeah, but mplayer breaks if your breathe on it too hard, and Xine is not
> all that much better (though better than gstreamer, and overall the best
> in terms of stability).
>
> New releases of KDE often are so buggy that you 1) *have* to upgrade
> whatever is available to get the bugfixes and 2) can't really be certain
> that any breakage is related to library updates (or worse yet, only
> *partial* library updates, not all relevant libraries, because all
> relevant libraries don't necessarily have updates available at the same
> time), rather than just one of the bugs.
>
> 'Loosing its themes' I've never seen (but then again I try to avoid
> using KDE as much as possible), but of all the things that KDE might
> (and has, in my experience) lose after a full, partial, or deep upgrade,
> "themes" are about the last on my "oh, no, I'm now hysterical" list. But
> that's just me.
>
> > because of qt updates or wesnoth. And that are the ones I remember
> > without to much brain work. That is why I am healed from --deep
> > updates
>
> OK. It's your box.
>
> In my opinion, it's impossible to avoid stuff breaking (on a
> Gentoo/source-based distro) box; libraries and applications depending on
> those libraries are *going* to be mis-matched at some point or another,
> sometimes quite often. It's usually temporary, and usually easy to fix:
> recompile the app against the  updated library, as I did yesterday for
> Beagle, or run <name_your_language>.updater-- I just found there's an
> ocaml-updater script; who knew? or run the config utility for gcc, or
> java or whatever is the problem today. Or switch apps, which is a
> little-thought-of but often quite effective solution. Helps to be a bit
> flexible, though, of course, which everybody does not have the liberty
> to be. But if not, then just stick with stable and don't upgrade at all,
> --deep or otherwise.
>
> Holly
>
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