Re: [gentoo-user] Installer (Sabayon 3.4 Loop 1) can't detect s/w RAID disks / fails with /etc/fstab mount error

[ruscook ozbike <ozbike@gmail.com>]

Neil Walker wrote:
> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
>> Sabayon is just gentoo with a different installer, correct?
>
> No, it's a binary distribution and a horrible mess.
>
>> So as long as you do your emerge sync && emerge -u world. you never 
>> need to install a new version, right?
>>   
>
> That is about the most dangerous thing you can do on Sabayon - 
> virtually guaranteed to break the system. It uses a mix of stable and 
> testing with a huge list of packages in /etc/portage/package.keywords 
> with ~arch. :( Any attempt to update the system the Gentoo way will 
> lead to a tangle of blocks, upgrades, downgrades, package masks, etc. 
> that can take a long time to sort out. At least that was how it was 
> when I tried it. :(
Obviously my view wasn't as sophisticated or detailed, but in essence, 
being a newbie, I felt the risk of that was too great. Hence wanting to 
use the newer version to upgrade some key packages.
I'm going to play with gentoo some in a vmware instance so I can get 
some idea of this emerge/compiling  thingy :-)

Russ
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