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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 19:26:43 -0500
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.
From: Alecks Gates <alecks.g@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 16:24:06 -0700
> Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That means your machine could be 100% testing software. At your skill
>> level I do not think this is a good idea. It works for some but not
>> for others.(me)
>>
>> I'm on my Kindle so more help is hard right now. Consider how to get
>> to stable, if that is even possible.
>
> Hmmmm, yeaaaaaahhh, I don't think so, he's a newbie
>
> I once switched a host from unstable to stable and I sweated blood
> and bricks to do it. IIRC correctly it involved a whole lot of manual
> package masking, and that took a whole lot of grep sed and awking
> emerge output.
>
> It was horrible. It would have been easier to reinstall. But, being a
> pigheaded Gentooist, I just had to try!
>
> What he could do is switch ACCEPT_KEYWORDS then not do much updates for
> 6 months and let stable catch up to unstable. Not ideal from a security
> update POV, but better than nothing
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
>
>
I'd have to agree with you, Alan. I tried switching from unstable to
stable once (and I'm still a newbie, so I was even more of a newb when
I tried) -- I just ended up reinstalling to keep my mind from melting.
This was on a standard Desktop/Gnome system, of course.