=\ Because each update basically rebuilds the same three or four super-packages (libreoffice, chromium, the kde collection, etc) all of which are version bumped every 12 milliseconds just to annoy ppl like me, and because I had such a Good Time (tm) last SEVERAL times I tried to update, I decided to put it off for six months....
Well later that day X'doze crashes after an uptime of about 30 days... (So I updated, there were problems but nothing worse than par...) Also, I realize that Linux is going to go through a Dark Age and probably be destroyed and re-built several times before emerging again as a usable operating system, I am going to be climbing up from my previous freeze at 4.15 to 4.18 which I will probably have to nurse through 5-6 years of war and upheval... (I am currently on 4.16, will try to go to 4.17 at next boot...) The biggest problem I have right now is all the button-icons in fvwm have gone poof. =( I didn't do anything that portage didn't demand I do... The window manager is really not usable without those icons, I know some of them by memory but a 3x3 matrix of blank buttons is not acceptable. The only two window managers available on gentoo, are twm -- which is all you need as an emergency de-fsck tool and fvwm which will do 99% of everything you actually need. -- Please report bounces from this address to a...@numentics.com Powers are not rights.
