Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is 2008.0_beta2 stable enough?

2008-05-22 Thread Sergey Kobzar 
Thursday, May 22, 2008, 11:27:31 AM, Neil wrote:

 On Thu, 22 May 2008 11:18:43 +0300, Sergey Kobzar wrote:

 I have a new laptop and want install Gentoo on it but not sure which
 profile to use. Is 2008.0 beta 2 stable enough for desktop or I should
 still use 2007?

 I've been running with 2008.0/desktop profiles for a few weeks with no
 problems,

but then you switched back to 2007?


 but a profile isn't much more than a collection of USE flags, so
 installing with 2007.0 and switching later is simple.

I'm agree with you, but it may require recompiling mostly all
installed software. Well, it's not a really big problem anyway.

I'd want to use 2008 beta2 if it's stable enough.


 A more important
 question is whether you want to run a stable or testing arch. From your
 question, I'd say you should run stable; ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x96 or amd64.

Yes, it's correct (x86 maybe?).


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Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is 2008.0_beta2 stable enough?

2008-05-22 Thread Sergey Kobzar 
Neil, thanks for help. You gave me answers on all my questions :)


Thursday, May 22, 2008, 12:11:41 PM, Neil wrote:

 On Thu, 22 May 2008 11:38:52 +0300, Sergey Kobzar wrote:

  I've been running with 2008.0/desktop profiles for a few weeks with no
  problems,  
 
 but then you switched back to 2007?

 No, I'm still running 2008.0.
  
  but a profile isn't much more than a collection of USE flags, so
  installing with 2007.0 and switching later is simple.  
 
 I'm agree with you, but it may require recompiling mostly all
 installed software. Well, it's not a really big problem anyway.

 It doesn't. Switching profiles mainly changes a few default USE flags.
 Only a few packages are recompiled by emerge --newuse and none of those
 are required. The most you have customised your USE flags, the less
 will be changed by the profile switch.

 I'd want to use 2008 beta2 if it's stable enough.

 There is no beta profile. The install discs based on 2008.0 are still in
 beta, but the profiles are plain 2008.0. It's really no big deal whether
 you use an 07 or 08 profile. 



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