[gentoo-user] Re: a question about updating process

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

behrouz khosravi <bz.khosravi <at> gmail.com> writes:


> I guess I got it know !
> And I must say that the way Gentoo is working now, is simple, no doubts.


If you are really interested in using GIT with gentoo, then read up
on overlays and layman

"layman -L"  shows experimental and code_hacks in progress.

GIT among other code management systems are used. Git is the most
common.


NEVER, use an overlay to replace a gentoo stable package, only to
install something additional or non-critical! (you've been warned!).



> And I am surprised to hear that Gentoo is so strict to follow upstream.
> I guess it makes it the most vanilla flavored, And I really like it !

Are you kidding?  Really?  Who the hell is going to even touch, yet
alone maintain  some of the advanced mathematics libraries we all
enjoy on Gentoo?  Many are difficult as hell to get stable on gentoo
and use in other (science) projects; just as one example. We stand tall,
here at gentoo, because we have the collective wisdom to use the
work provided by the larger community of hackers, coders, students
and yes burnt_out_too_often_abused_admins  who often appear to have bad
attitudes......  (hi Alan!)

Here's but one example, you should take on to manage, upgrade and
enhance in your spare time?

http://www.dune-project.org/


Here is another one (you do like video on your workstation?:
media-video/ffmpeg

Sorry for being blunt, but you just do not realize just how rediculous
this line of reasoning/questioning is?


hth,
James