Re: [gentoo-user] pre-emerge steps

2009-01-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 01 January 2009 02:29:15 Stroller wrote: On 31 Dec 2008, at 23:51, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Having just been bitten by some of my hardware being abandoned with the latest version of a software package I am left to question the entire philosophy in gentoo of always running

Re: [gentoo-user] pre-emerge steps

2009-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 01/01/09 Alan McKinnon said: He also asked a very generic question, the kind that doesn't really have an answer. So no-one likely will. For all we know, the hardware in question is a floppy drive. Or token ring. Michael, what package, what hardware are we talking about? Your question

Re: [gentoo-user] pre-emerge steps

2009-01-01 Thread Mick
On Thursday 01 January 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 01 January 2009 02:29:15 Stroller wrote: On 31 Dec 2008, at 23:51, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Having just been bitten by some of my hardware being abandoned with the latest version of a software package I am left to question

Re: [gentoo-user] pre-emerge steps

2009-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 01/01/09 Mick said: I guess there is bugzilla for posting bugs or even requests, but if as Alan says the hardware in question is that obscure/obsolete, then interest for continuing its dev't will undoubtedly decline with time. Maybe the recent 2.6.27 kernel problems that I have

Re: [gentoo-user] pre-emerge steps

2009-01-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: Having just been bitten by some of my hardware being abandoned with the latest version of a software package I am left to question the entire philosophy in gentoo of always running bleeding edge. Not touching a

Re: [gentoo-user] pre-emerge steps

2009-01-01 Thread Matt Harrison
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 01/01/09 Mick said: I guess there is bugzilla for posting bugs or even requests, but if as Alan says the hardware in question is that obscure/obsolete, then interest for continuing its dev't will undoubtedly decline with time. Maybe the recent 2.6.27 kernel

[gentoo-user] pre-emerge steps

2008-12-31 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Having just been bitten by some of my hardware being abandoned with the latest version of a software package I am left to question the entire philosophy in gentoo of always running bleeding edge. Not touching a system that's working is becoming far more tempting, and I'm curious as to what others

Re: [gentoo-user] pre-emerge steps

2008-12-31 Thread Stroller
On 31 Dec 2008, at 23:51, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Having just been bitten by some of my hardware being abandoned with the latest version of a software package I am left to question the entire philosophy in gentoo of always running bleeding edge. Not touching a system that's working is