Re: [gentoo-user] Stale Samba in Portage

["Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@bellsouth.net>]

Bill, have you used RPMs <G>.  Then you will appreciate portage <G>.  When 
I came to Gentoo from Caldera it was such a relief not to have to use 
RPMs!  It's never faltered on me and the ~arch keeps "unstable" stuff out 
of my sight unless 
I chose it.


On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, W.Kenworthy wrote:

> Its ok for a quick check - especially as I dont want ~x86 samba on that
> system.
>
> I regard /etc/portage and the way it has been done is a disaster waiting
> to happen.  You have files hidden away in there that unless you make the
> effort, can (and do) keep insecure versions of software on your system -
> make sure you regularly check what you put in there!  It also did not
> work properly on two of my systems (one has been decommissioned and the
> other has been so much upgraded I think the problem has gone away - I
> gave up after hours of trying to track down inconsistencies.
>
> Sorry, but I hanker back to simpler times when -i made things so easy
> and I didnt have to worry about someones idea of an "elegant" fix ...
>
> BillK
>
>
> On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 19:45 -0400, fire-eyes wrote:
>> On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 07:14 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
>>> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerge samba -s
>>
>> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS done on the command line is a very poor idea,
>> use /etc/portage/package.use instead.
>>
>> I forget the specifics, but I have seen a system run into serious
>> problems and library screwups over that.
>>
>
>

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