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 4.50) id 1EccsG-0008OI-8t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 06:03:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAH630UE009070; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 06:03:00 GMT Received: from heisenberg.zen.co.uk (heisenberg.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.141]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAH5wCVv032352 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 05:58:12 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by heisenberg.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Eccmf-0006NA-R8 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 05:58:10 +0000 Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38998140621A for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:44:09 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:46:47 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path? Message-ID: <20051116224647.728b51da@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <9999810b0511161250h3b1cbdfcvbd1ff493660cf3b8@mail.gmail.com> References: <9999810b0511160820h648eb1a5o4f62300507c2b8a9@mail.gmail.com> <342e1090511161153p1fbbf3dex27a4f9603b23d7de@mail.gmail.com> <9999810b0511161250h3b1cbdfcvbd1ff493660cf3b8@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100 (GTK+ 2.8.6; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_tZl1+nchT5E=c5DhYdRSL0O"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Heisenberg-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: 87c6aad7-4eef-4444-80bd-7147b3d48ad8 X-Archives-Hash: df8f6798097be7bd9c3336ae0eebdfb9 --Sig_tZl1+nchT5E=c5DhYdRSL0O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick First Law of Laboratory Work: --Sig_tZl1+nchT5E=c5DhYdRSL0O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDe7baum4al0N1GQMRAmnuAJkBp949W4ZuTRBcK7szDMnA3T3CWQCeNRFd wv4sJyKKBT15hUYLft1ggws= =W1Bb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_tZl1+nchT5E=c5DhYdRSL0O-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list