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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 - my experience so far...
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:00:11 +0200
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Are you merely ranting or asking for help?
If the former, well, OK i Hear you. But I don't care.
If the latter, then you need to provide info like logs, output etc.
~amd64 works like a charm for me here.
On Monday 12 April 2010 13:57:39 Mark Knecht wrote:
> ...is not so good actually. Certainly not the way I'd want others to
> experience Gentoo.
>
> OK, the ~amd64 upgrade to @system was easy and relatively painless.
> The documents were fairly clear. There are things to learn, and old
> friends like rc-update and df look different, but it worked and didn't
> take long - less than an hour to reboot including editing - so that's
> good.
>
> Unfortunately, simply allowing all environments & apps on the system
> to go ~amd64 isn't working out as nicely.
>
> 1) xfce4 had one build failure. I masked it and the build finished.
> xfce starts and seems to mostly work, but I get no wallpaper and the
> right click for a menu on the desktop doesn't work. It's usable, but
> clearly 'not stable'.
>
> 2) gnome-2.28 simply doesn't build.
>
> 3) I'm currently left with lots of things in emerge @preserved-rebuild
> that don't build. emerge -DuN @world is not clean.
>
> QUESTION: Assume I'm happy with ~amd64 on @system, but want to build
> the stable version of gnome or kde. How do I get it? Since gnome-2.26
> worked yesterday I tried masking >=gnome-2.28. emerge -DuN gnome.
> Portage then didn't try to emerge the meta-package but doesn't take
> all of gnome back to 2.26. There's no point trying kde as gnome pulled
> in kde components that doesn't build either. Hopefully it's not 'mask
> every package in gnome by hand'.
>
> At this point I'm left with a system that's not clean and to me not
> terribly useful. Yesterday as stable I built xfce, gnome and kde in
> under 4 hours and all 3 worked. Today both gnome and xfce aren't right
> and I don't have kde. Probably this is some matter of learning to hold
> back portage that I've never done before, rather than unleashing new
> packages like you do on a stable system.
>
> How does one accomplish this?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com