Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Mike Diehl <mdiehl@diehlnet.com> wrote:
> Ok now, I'm getting fed up with all of the breakage that I've seen in Gentoo
> in the last few months.
>

Understood and personally felt.

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> emerge -C mktemp
>

Generally a *very* bad move unless you are *absolutely* sure that what
you are removing is not needed to keep the system working.

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> Has Gentoo become such a moving target that it's no longer suitable for
> normal, every day, usage?

OK, I'm a putz who has used Gentoo now for (I think) 8-9 years. I'm
not a developer, a programmer or a sys admin. Keep that in mind.

Gentoo goes through phases of relative stability interrupted by
periods of time where major problems dominate. (As seen by users, not
the Lords of Gentoo (LoG)) Personally I think we're in one of those
unfortunate periods of time where there is a relatively high number of
issues. I'm seeing it on all my machines. It's taking far more of my
time to deal with this than I wish it would.

1) ntp-update problems at boot time.
2) emerge -DuN world building lots of packages that are already on the
system but the LoG has apparently changed flags so emerge wants to
rebuild them.
3) New and unclear (to me) messages about portage flag overrides
caused by overlays I've been using for a while.

Am I frustrated like you? Yep. Very much so. Am I considering using
something else? Quite a few thoughts. Do I think there's a better
distro? Not that I know of.

My workload:

1) Gentoo 64-bit desktop
2) Gentoo 32-bit desktop
3) Gentoo 32-bit mythbackend
4) Gentoo 32-bit mythfrontend
5) Gentoo 32-bit mythfrontend

Cheers,
Mark