On Friday 10 Feb 2017 10:15:10 Mick wrote:
> Peter, some years ago I also reverted from testing to stable arch, because
> I was spending more time fixing breakages than actually using the OS.
> From what I recall it took more than a month for things to settle.
I did it the easy way, by building a new system from scratch, so there
shouldn't be any settling down in this case.
> Something which will help is if you clear out as much of your USE flags in
> make.conf and package.use as you can, before you run emerge -e.
You may have it there. Goodness knows how long they'd been there, being
copied from one system to another, but I had pch, vaapi and vdpau in USE. I
don't know how much difference pch makes in practice, but I'm running emerge
-e world without those three. I'll let you know. This is USE now:
USE="-bluetooth -btrfs -fortran -gcj -geoloc -geolocation -gnome -iodbc
-ldap -lirc -nis -odbc -systemd -thin -wifi -wireless -xinerama
gpm handbook icu symlink"
> Also make sure your new user is member of the usual groups (plugdev, usb,
> audio, et al)
$ groups
adm lp wheel audio cdrom video cdrw usb users portage vboxusers boinc prh
Thanks for the reminders, Mick. No matter how hard I stare at USE, I still
don't always see everything I should.
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Regards
Peter
