On Saturday, April 16, 2016 11:25:23 AM Dale wrote: > Top posting since John started it. lol
Refusing to top-post, even when others do... Makes for even more fun to trace the conversations... > Can you two explain this to Alan Grimes? He seems to think emerge has > some very serious problems. ;-) Trying to explain it to him will be as useful as discussing science with members of the Westboro Baptist Church or similar.... > I might add, I recently went through the KDE plasma update which > involved a ton of rebuilds/upgrades. Since I run a mix of stable and > unstable, it took some effort to get it all sorted BUT emerge did a > pretty good job of telling me what was needed. Once I got the proper > things in the keyword and USE file, it was off to compile land for > several hours. I might add, I had to use some of Alan McKinnion's logic > to understand emerge's output. Aside from that, the upgrade guide was a very useful step-by-step guide to avoid any blockers during the upgrade. > I might add, I also recently did a emerge -e world. Out of all the over > 1,400 packages installed on this machine, only one failed. I can't > recall the package name but I seem to recall keywording to a newer > version and that worked. Still, 1 out of over 1400 packages. That's > pretty dang good. About 99.9% success. Almost like 24 caret gold. 1 out of 1400 is, in my opinion, 1 too many. But compared to the likely 400 you'd have had about 5 or 6 years ago, I am extremely pleased. > It seems you two are not alone on being some happy Gentooers. :-D Count me there as well. I have long passed the point where I will accept bad and unreliable systems when I can help it. > Dale > > :-) :-) > > John Blinka wrote: > > I've been meaning to write such a post for some time now. Thanks for > > prompting me to add my 2 cents. > > > > I've been using Gentoo for perhaps 15 years. There have been a few > > rough patches along the way resolved by new reinstalls, but overall > > this has been by far the best computing environment I've ever used. > > (And one of the best online communities I've ever lurked in.) I > > remember feeling quite apprehensive at my first install after giving > > the Handbook my first look, but that install went well, and I've never > > looked back. I've been able to transition from using Gentoo as a > > professional development system for large scale parallel numerical > > stuff, to using it for some personal work in medical informatics, and > > lately digital photography. In general, I've found that Gentoo just > > works, given a little effort to understand how to make it work via its > > truly wonderful array of well written documentation. I really like > > the ease with which I've been able to venture into new categories of > > software and computing. Every time I've needed something new, it's > > been in portage and has been fairly easy to install, configure, and use. > > > > I recently had to do reinstalls on all my systems due to disk > > failures. Took a few days, but I've been living in a sweet spot ever > > since, with everything working perfectly on all systems. > > > > Thanks to all who've made this possible! > > > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de > > > > <mailto:a...@muc.de>> wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > > > I'm just saying hello to confirm I'm still here. > > > > For many months now, Gentoo has simply worked for me, without > > problems. > > I sync my system several times a week, and emerge just works. > > > > The last bit of excitement I had was in early 2015 when I was > > trying to > > sort out the mess in my xfce4 system after gnome-3 had been made > > stable. > > In the end, I gave up and reinstalled Gentoo, which this time took me > > only a week. > > > > Admittedly, there's very little which is cutting edge on my system > > - the > > box is 6½ years old, it boots with lilo on an old fashioned BIOS, my > > filesystems are ext3 (or in one case, ext2) on spinning rust. The > > only > > remotely adventurous things I've got are RAID-1 (via the kernel) and > > lvm2. > > > > So a big thanks to all the developers who've brought about this happy > > state of affairs! > > > > -- > > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
