From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Eci1Z-0004JP-Ud for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:33:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAHBVe0v031214; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:31:40 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.204]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAHBOgMJ014298 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:24:43 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z3so1647694nzf for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:24:42 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=mTrZ94wa1FfDBstMAxUB5SMJBI7hxht0SwRpYkV7GnYKWVurY15uqnbgJQp3NZNd8xMCdRL1ku4ty2caskVjGpLF2JPm2JoHM1zUHOLc/OmCWEHJ5hv1vpRiMHUsU/yuwmwZflTBdtUz1IXi/S4tAMc+yfMe8spqprrQXdI0KaI= Received: by 10.36.80.13 with SMTP id d13mr989273nzb; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:24:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.65.2 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:24:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9999810b0511170324u17a51e95ya1c311d543d02c7c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 06:24:41 -0500 From: Derek Tracy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path? In-Reply-To: <20051116224647.728b51da@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline References: <9999810b0511160820h648eb1a5o4f62300507c2b8a9@mail.gmail.com> <342e1090511161153p1fbbf3dex27a4f9603b23d7de@mail.gmail.com> <9999810b0511161250h3b1cbdfcvbd1ff493660cf3b8@mail.gmail.com> <20051116224647.728b51da@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jAHBOgMJ014298 X-Archives-Salt: 32923f65-c7a2-4227-86bd-5e475bde5f8e X-Archives-Hash: cb73f1a1222b31724aadfac12c0ef0bd On 11/16/05, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:50:00 -0500, Derek Tracy wrote: > > > The biggest reason for the reinstall was because in my contant playing > > around with DE's and WM's trying to find one that I completely liked. I > > had KDE, GNOME, E17, FVWM, OpenBOX (I think that is it) all on my > > system. In all of my toying around I found out a lot about myself, for > > 1 GUI applications make me work slower and FVWM was and is all I need > > to make me happy. So I could either unemerge KDE GNOME and the rest > > (which would surely leave all sorts of unneeded libs and things) or I > > could reinstall. > > emerge -C kde-meta gnome > emerge depclean -a Thank you. If this system gets over cluttered again I will do just that. > > Much easier than reinstalling, and the reason for depclean. > > > To me reinstallation sounded a lot easier. > > Reinstallation is never easier. All it ever does is hide the issues, you > never find out how to resolve them. > > > That is what I was thinking when I switched to stable..... From what I > > am seeing either my computer doesn't like stable code or stable does > > not mean stable anymore. > > It's not about stable code, that is up to the upstream developers. arch > vs. ~arch is about the stability of the ebuilds, and this is using stable > in the same way that Debian do; not changing. An arch ebuild is stable > because it has not changed in, usually, at least 30 days. A ~arch ebuild > is for testing, it does not mean the program is unstable. > I can definately see your point and I have never heard arch and ~arch explained like that. It gives me a lot of food for thought. Again thank you. > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > First Law of Laboratory Work: > > > To give a big update. In the original post I mentioned that I was in the middle of doing an emerge -e world after changing from x86 to ~x86 Well after the compile completed I did a quick etc-update.. Re-emerged madwifi-driver and ipw2200 ipw2200-firmware nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx (I did not change any other config files) and low and behold after a quick reboot everything was working again. -- --------------------------------- Derek Tracy tracyde@gmail.com --------------------------------- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list