Our family computer has many different tasks to perform and consequently has many packages emerged. Several of these packages were not available for amd64 stable, so I got the ~amd64 versions. This of course led to the need to also pull in ~amd64 dependencies. And those dependencies grow.
It seems like just about every time I do an emerge --update --deep world I have to change some package to ~amd64. At the moment, I have more than 50 entries in my package.keywords file. Of course, I didn't keep track which ebuilds I originally emerged using ~amd64, and if some of them are now available in stable. At the moment, I am considering the following paths 1) spending several hours checking out the ~amd64 packages I emerged, to see if they are available in stable, and which dependencies can then be brought back to amd64. As spare time is a rather scarce resource for me, I don't want to do this unless absolutely necessary 2) Go totally ~amd64. I am slightly worried about system stability in this scenario. Every time the system hiccups my wife tells me that this never happened in Windows... 3) Do nothing and hope for the best. 4) Go Kubuntu. I really like Gentoo, but if system administration will take too much time, this may be my only path left :-( So, I am asking for advice from the more experienced Gentooers here. How do you deal with the ~amd64 packages? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Ulm R&D Team ISIS Information Systems Austria tel: +43 2236 27551-219, fax: +43 2236 21081 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit our Website: www.isis-papyrus.com --------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail is only intended for the recipient and not legally binding. Unauthorised use, publication, reproduction or disclosure of the content of this e-mail is not permitted. This email has been checked for known viruses, but ISIS accepts no responsibility for malicious or inappropriate content. --------------------------------------------------------------- -- [email protected] mailing list
