On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:50:00 -0500, Derek Tracy wrote:

> The biggest reason for the reinstall was because in my contant playing
> around with DE's and WM's trying to find one that I completely liked. I
> had KDE, GNOME, E17, FVWM, OpenBOX (I think that is it) all on my
> system. In all of my toying around I found out a lot about myself, for
> 1 GUI applications make me work slower and FVWM was and is all I need
> to make me happy. So I could either unemerge KDE GNOME and the rest
> (which would surely leave all sorts of unneeded libs and things) or I
> could reinstall.

emerge -C kde-meta gnome
emerge depclean -a

Much easier than reinstalling, and the reason for depclean.

> To me reinstallation sounded a lot easier.

Reinstallation is never easier. All it ever does is hide the issues, you
never find out how to resolve them.

> That is what I was thinking when I switched to stable..... From what I
> am seeing either my computer doesn't like stable code or stable does
> not mean stable anymore.

It's not about stable code, that is up to the upstream developers. arch
vs. ~arch is about the stability of the ebuilds, and this is using stable
in the same way that Debian do; not changing. An arch ebuild is stable
because it has not changed in, usually, at least 30 days. A ~arch ebuild
is for testing, it does not mean the program is unstable.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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