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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 - my experience so far...
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On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you merely ranting or asking for help?
>
> If the former, well, OK i Hear you. But I don't care.
>
> If the latter, then you need to provide info like logs, output etc.
>
> ~amd64 works like a charm for me here.
>
>

Neither. I think I asked a simple question. How does one get ~amd64
@system and stable everything else? If the answer is 'you can't' or
'it's immensely hard because you have to -~arch everything by hand'
then I'll just go back to stable, whether it is easy or requires me to
rebuild the system from scratch.

I'm certainly not ranting. I don't think that tone should came across
in what I wrote and if you're reading that in then it's on your end
not mine. (Although I apologize for writing anything that made that
happen!) I have __nothing__ on this system. The hardware is brand new.
It's been said time and time again that running all ~arch on other
people's systems (like yours)  works great and I wanted to try it.
It's certainly not working for me at this point but I'm not upset,
mad, or anything like that. I'm asking a simple question. That's it.
Nothing more.

I am however documenting my experiences for others than come after me
to this question of "to ~amd64 or not ~amd64". Nothing more. It worked
for Alan who is a __very__ experienced and capable person. It didn't
work for Mark (at this point) who is a 10 year Gentoo user but
__nothing__ more than a user type Those people can decide who they are
closer to in capabilities and make their choice a bit more informed.

I didn't wake up this morning thinking I could do what you and Neil
and others on this list can with this distro. I'm not that silly! I
just wanted to try ~amd64 to see what happened. It will take me less
than 90 minutes to get to a new clean install if I blow everything
away and start over. It's not a big deal.

- Mark