Mark Rudholm wrote:
Jeremy Brake wrote:
Is it just my imagination, or does bind keep upgrading and downgrading
in portage? its getting irritating.
This a "bug" in portage that has been known about for a long time. Fixing it
would take at least a partial rewrite of the dep resolver. Basically, there is a
newer version of some package that was installed as a dependency, but another
package DEPENDs on a version of the first package less than the newest. Portage
doesn't know not to upgrade that 2nd package, even though an older version is
required by some other package.
I wasn't very amused with the breaking of Apache conf files, either.
That's poor package mainatenanceship.
The apache config files weren't *broken*. They were fixed. They are now a whole
heck of a lot closer to the way a vanilla apache setup has them. There was talk
of that happening over a year before it happened. There was a warning that went
out to a few mailing lists a week before the new apache went stable.
I was installing Gentoo on a new desktop system they gave me at work
last night and was surprised to find that Stage 1 and Stage 2 installs are
no longer supported and that users are instructed not to do them.
The reason they are no longer *officially* supported is because many users would
not read the documentation, do things wrong, and file bugs. This happened a
*lot*. The stage 1 and 2 install instructions were removed from the handbook to
cut down on the flood of invalid bugs.
There is nothing stopping you from doing a stage 1 or 2 install. Just don't
expect help if it breaks. Also, stage 2 installs are quite pointless.
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