060504 Michael Kirkland wrote: > I think the problem is that Gentoo is falling into the same sandtrap > the Debian project has been mired in forever. > "arch" and "~arch" are polarizing into "stable, but horribly out of date" > and "maybe it will work". This leads to people trying to maintain > a frankenstinian /etc/portage/package.keywords file, > constantly adding to it & never knowing when things can be removed from it.
That's very much my own impression. I am now using ~x86 versions of Vim Vim-core Gvim Cdargs Openoffice Eix Euses Gqview Gwenview Portage Firefox Galeon Htop KDE -- all of which which I use regularly -- & Abiword Gnumeric Koffice Gnugo Qgo Qalculate-kde (which I rarely use). I have had no problem with any of them. My solution is a line in .bashrc : 'alias emergeu='ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge' , which allows me to emerge a testing version on a specific occasion. The package.keywords alternative is silly, as there's no reason anyone would want to do it regularly for a package, as opposed to occasionally when -- increasingly -- stabilisation is late. I do a weekly 'eix-sync' & check the list of packages which have changed, then decide which ones to update; I never do 'emerge world'. I keep an upto-date file with a line for each package I have installed, incl date, version & the main dependencies it satisfies (if any): this is my alternative to 'world', which is clumsy & causes problems. I have been doing this since I started using Gentoo in Oct 2003 & have never had any problem with Portage or packages as a result. > I would suggest opening a middle ground tag, > where things can be moved to from "~arch" > when they work for reasonable configuration values, > but still have open bugs for some people. I suggested this earlier, but got only nonsense for a reply. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- [email protected] mailing list
