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 1MbFke-0005H8-7f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:28:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9BFD9E04C8; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:28:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f177.google.com (mail-yx0-f177.google.com [209.85.210.177]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82B39E04C8 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:28:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe7 with SMTP id 7so110705yxe.32 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:28:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=XY/EhlZPoPQrjHty1Sn/bnpFlLp9s6CAniHMGl9MxqY=; b=fHX9N7k4LJF2C5lp3pXAZW0rfApsgXQTDFIutXq4ybHBQ5/0vdVNdiqf4guwr9bZun IJpe6CPbJcEsrKXrVKt81bqFAg+HdxyKfijXdoWZPp1MGO/S4sTiK6XU61sJATnLu3bN inSlc3l58L25E2QAKIVsWIpp2Kx8SWATKAbD0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=czHi0wmMvVl1C0GfKXzXAUKBjuEBd0aW+OzKsA+hvuGsyAZ67f/AYVVR6OMPCLNyQp 1CavK+6BXsbDzTmVnf1uYZuNSOyMA/QttlvlegXNA0AZpQcBRrpUbcdWAZm8Zj4ctJbz 0+hz/sY2Ro+pkAQmRQTXy2FstF/7t1z73JcJU= 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.225.11 with SMTP id x11mr388067ybg.125.1250090910207; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:28:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890908112213r5a7e08a4k7703ca14a9d9bcfb@mail.gmail.com> References: <7bef1f890908112213r5a7e08a4k7703ca14a9d9bcfb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:28:30 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 9a83bc3fe0c5d3bd Message-ID: <58965d8a0908120828v11e791eaqf317e3ff21c6ddef@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1cc1604f-d171-4117-afb0-5eb756747dc1 X-Archives-Hash: 28ab2be9099c69256ea7d3fb99361cae On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > Is it because I'm more experienced, or perhaps more cautious? I am running > ~amd64, and have several overlays installed under layman. I don't know, but > I tend to think the distribution is more mature. Welcome back! :) I seem to feel that it's more mature, too. I haven't stopped using it, but in the last 5 years that I've been using it, it has definitely gotten much easier and more manageable thanks to the hard work of so many people. In particular some of the newest versions of portage have greatly improved handling of things like blockers, depclean hasn't burned me, and the whole @preserved-rebuild thing has virtually eliminated the need to ever run revdep-rebuild. The established overlays and layman have really helped dealing with the major things like new releases of KDE with no big headaches, and ebuilds for nearly everything are available either in portage or in an overlay. There are still many, many bug reports on b.g.o every day (which I consider a good thing in this case) so it seems like while there isn't the "buzz" in the linux world about it anymore, the Gentoo community is still alive and active.