On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 02:31:21PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 13:57 on Sunday 05 June 2011, Indi did opine > thusly: > > > On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 01:34:37PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > > > > > > A victim of "release early, release often"? :-) > > > > Yes, definitely. > > One of these days I'll switch back to stable, just haven't > > been willing to bite that bullet quite yet. At least it's > > helped me temper my obsessive tendencies a bit -- I only > > update on Saturday now. :) > > Have you ever made that switch before? > > It's not worth trying, far easier to re-install and retain your data. Someone > here tried it a few months back and did succeed, but the cost! > > Find first blocker, follow it down the rabbit hole, resolve all nodes on the > gigantic tree you just built, emerge. Rinse and repeat with next visible > blocker. Do this many times. > > At least glibc issue won't be as big a factor as it was for that fellow. IIRC > he had to go from 2.10 to 2.7, today it's only 2.13 back to 2.12 >
Yes, probably I'm unlikely to do it... Never did actually switch from testing to stable, it's always the other way around. Every now and then I'll delete the "~" and type "emerge -vauND world", it always looks like a fracking nightmare... In fact, testing branch is remarkable good and more stable than most distro's "stable" branch. The gentoo devs are truly magnificent at their job. -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤
