> I wonder if it's worth the trouble. I read here that running a full ~x86 > system would probably be easier. And I'd like to try, but while going from > x86 to ~x86 is easy, the other way is quite hard, isn't it? If possible at > all.
I just wanted to throw my two-cents in here, although much has been said. I was running ~x86 for about two years. Then I waited 6 months and was able to shift to x86 with only a few things in the keywords. (For example, I had already shifted to openrc and I didn't see the point in shifting back and then back-once-again.) However, for these cases, I almost exclusively keyword <= version numbers, so that, in theory, I will eventually hit x86 minus a very few packages (for example, the ones that there is no x86 version available). But honestly, I've been nearly stable (x86) for a couple months now, and I can't say that the system seems any different. Problems still crop up, and I still have to deal with them. As one poster mentioned, when I was running ~x86 and an ebuild was annoying, I'd just emerge the stable one. This was a solution for 90% of the things I couldn't google up a bug report on. But the problems I've hit lately are taking me a lot more time. It could be the mixing of x86 ~and x86, even though the mixture is nearly all x86. While shifitng from ~x86 to x86 is 'harder' than the other way around, basically the way you're shifting is, by-and-large, just waiting for x86 to catch up to ~x86. Regards, daid
