Bill, have you used RPMs <G>. Then you will appreciate portage <G>. When
I came to Gentoo from Caldera it was such a relief not to have to use
RPMs! It's never faltered on me and the ~arch keeps "unstable" stuff out
of my sight unless
I chose it.
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, W.Kenworthy wrote:
Its ok for a quick check - especially as I dont want ~x86 samba on that
system.
I regard /etc/portage and the way it has been done is a disaster waiting
to happen. You have files hidden away in there that unless you make the
effort, can (and do) keep insecure versions of software on your system -
make sure you regularly check what you put in there! It also did not
work properly on two of my systems (one has been decommissioned and the
other has been so much upgraded I think the problem has gone away - I
gave up after hours of trying to track down inconsistencies.
Sorry, but I hanker back to simpler times when -i made things so easy
and I didnt have to worry about someones idea of an "elegant" fix ...
BillK
On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 19:45 -0400, fire-eyes wrote:
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 07:14 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerge samba -s
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS done on the command line is a very poor idea,
use /etc/portage/package.use instead.
I forget the specifics, but I have seen a system run into serious
problems and library screwups over that.
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