From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Msuix-00012e-SK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:39:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3247E085E; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:39:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zion.lichtfels.com (zion.lichtfels.com [88.198.33.170]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 717A1E085E for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:39:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zion.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B26446FAE2 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:39:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from zion.lichtfels.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zion [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with LMTP id 12459-04 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:39:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [172.32.99.12] (mail.oops.co.at [213.129.238.225]) by zion.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 849A6184008 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:39:35 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4AC31950.7040203@xunil.at> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:39:44 +0200 From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" Organization: oops! User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090929) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.26 stable? References: <4AC283C0.5020704@xunil.at> <20090929195024.58a6895a@dartworks.biz> In-Reply-To: <20090929195024.58a6895a@dartworks.biz> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-maia at lichtfels.com X-Archives-Salt: f7e6526b-d857-4359-bdf4-7367d5d6bf6d X-Archives-Hash: 5c1e0499d13c37b0a7902ff04eaaf7c9 Keith Dart schrieb: > Just FYI, I always run unstable (now ~amd64), and rarely have problems, > and those are mostly compile problems related to my particular mix of > USE flags. Those are quickly fixed. Once running, everything has been > stable for me. I guess that since "unstable" is so stable that no one > is inclined to unmask it for "stable" mask. ;-) > > So go for it... > > By far the biggest headaches have been all the changes happening in the > Xorg world, but that seems to have stabilized now also. > > But always keep in mind that as a Gentoo user you are your own system's > integrator... oh yes ... Keith, Albert, James, thanks for your replies ... I will consider trying this although I would prefer not to go completely ~amd64 ... as I am very happy with the overall state of my system ... you know, the old dilemma :-) I will look into getting 2.26 soon, thanks. Stefan