110210 Alan McKinnon wrote: > glibc is problematic, it's tentacles run very deep in any GNU system, > it has a less than stellar history in terms of breaking gentoo systems, > mostly due to inadequate testing before releasing to ~arch. > it's v difficult to downgrade it due to that hidden barf check in the ebuild. > I'd support a portage feature-request: > automatic binpkgs of a sub-set of @system > that the user must opt-out of in make.conf: > python, portage, glibc, gcc, maybe a few others > What say you all?
I avoid such problems by 2 simple precautions: (1) I never use testing versions of system pkgs like Glibc & (2) I have FEATURES="buildsyspkg" in make.conf . Beyond those, I'ld say Gentoo users are grown-ups who don't need coddling. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
